Category: Books
Israel, Gaza, and McNamara’s Lessons for War and Peace
by Ashutosh Jogalekar at 3 Quarks Daily: Once again the world faces death and destruction,…
She Wrote ‘The History of White People.’ She Has a Lot More to Say.
Jennifer Szalai in The New York Times: As the historian Nell Irvin Painter has learned over…
Fareed Zakaria and Our Tumultuous World
Anita Jain in the Washington Times: In his latest book, Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash…
How to Co-Write a Book 3,000 Miles Apart
By Rosemarie Bodenheimer (RB) & Philip Davis (PD) at OUP Blog: RB lives outside Boston…
Indian Court Painting and an Eclipse
Morgan Meis at Slant Books: I happened to be in New York City a few…
How Harlem Saw Itself
Clifford Thompson at Commonweal: “For generations in the mind of America, the Negro has been…
Women in the Ancient World
Literary Review May 2024 Issue: Women are everywhere in classical literature and mythology, but the…
The Stories We Tell About the End of the World
Mark Blacklock at Literary Review: Evidently, the time is ripe for a survey of the…
No One Buys Books
Elle Griffin at The Elysian: In 2022, Penguin Random House wanted to buy Simon &…
Antidote to the Crisis of Leadership: Opportunity in Complexity
Leadership is in crisis. Scandals are commonplace, only 20% of employees claim they trust their…
Beating Slow Horses
Brad East in The Hedgehog Review: The conceit at the heart of Mick Herron’s Slow Horses novels is…
Why Habits are the “Compound Interest” of Self-Improvement
Atomic Habits: The #1 New York Times bestseller. Over 15 million copies sold! An Easy…