They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45 — Milton Mayer
Milton Mayer’s They Thought They Were Free, had long been on my reading list. By unhappy coincidence this turned out …
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Begin Again – Eddie S. Glaude Jr
Eddie Glaude Jr. is one of a vital new wave of Black American writers¹. Though he primarily writes of religion …
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story – by Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis, one of the best writers of creative non-fiction since John McPhee invented the genre has followed his eye-opening …
Unworthy Republic
History, as taught to children, throughout the world, is primarily a means of instilling national pride. What if, instead, its …
The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science
The Romantic period of Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelly in England and of others around Europe is not normally thought of …
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in A Silicon Valley Startup (2018) by John Carreyrou has justly received dozens upon …
The Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
I know you won’t believe me that families of human beings arrived on tiny Easter Island before any such …
The Fifth Risk – Michael Lewis
When I first saw the title of Michael Lewis’s 2018 book, The Fifth Risk, my associative circuitry immediately connected …
Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War….
The civil war in Spain, 1936-1939, was the dark warning to the world of the war to follow, in almost every …
The Big Short: The Street, The Book, The Movie
There are no good guys in Adam McKay’s new movie, The Big Short, nor in the book of the same name …
The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
After you have read The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross you will never hear concert …
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
Can we talk?!” Joan Rivers peppered her routines with her signature riff, aggressive and not a question at all, but …