Reading
Finished reading: Ursula K. Le Guin: The Complete Orsinia by Ursula K. Le Guin. Not Le Guin at her best; I think I’ll do an audio post soon. 📚
Currently reading: The Complete Orsinia by Ursula K. Le Guin 📚
Finished reading: The City & the City by China Miéville 📚
Currently reading: The City & the City by China Miéville 📚
Finished reading: Mao II by Don DeLillo. Conceptually fascinating but not wholly successful as a novel. 📚
Finished reading: The Spirit of Early Christian Thought by Robert Louis Wilken. I should probably re-read this magnificent book every year. 📚
Finished reading: The Metaphysical Club by Louis Menand. A brilliant book — I should have read it years ago. 📚
Currently reading: The Metaphysical Club by Louis Menand 📚
Finished reading: Richard Hofstadter: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, The Paranoid Style in American Politics, Uncollected Essays 1956-1965 (LOA #330) by Richard Hofstadter. Eerily relevant to our moment. 📚
Currently reading: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, The Paranoid Style in American Politics, Uncollected Essays 1956-1965 by Richard Hofstadter 📚
Finished reading: Heidegger in Ruins by Richard Wolin. A devastating indictment. I wrote a review here. 📚
Currently reading: Heidegger in Ruins by Richard Wolin 📚
Currently reading: Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson 📚
Currently reading: The Spirit of Early Christian Thought by Robert Louis Wilken. Another re-read. Very excited to return to this one. 📚
Finished reading: Clockwork, Or, All Wound Up by Philip Pullman. A perfect little fable, ideal for children of all ages. 📚
Finished reading: Raymond Chandler: the Library of America Edition by Raymond Chandler. Most of these I hadn’t read in decades … I’m having a complicated response to them after all this time. I’ll write up my thoughts eventually. 📚
Currently reading: Raymond Chandler: the Library of America Edition by Raymond Chandler 📚