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- Henry RoedigerInterview
I am reading Leaving Berlin by Joseph Kanon. Recently I have been enjoying reading historical fiction about the World War II era, in particular, books by Kanon (set after the war), Alan Furst (before the war), and Philip Kerr (all three). I’ve also finished the first two of Rick Atkinson’s trilogy on the history of…
- Matt MaddenInterview
Right now I’m in the midst of a 150th anniversary edition of Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, El Mal de Montano (Montano’s Malady) by Enrique Vila-Matas—an author I’m finally getting around to reading and it’s like meeting an uncle I didn’t know I had; I’m also reading John Corbett’s concise A Listener’s Guide to Free…
- Massimo PigliucciInterview
A lot! For instance, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt. It’s the story of the rediscovery, during the Renaissance, of the lost poem by Lucretius, De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things). It’s a beautiful poem in its own right, but it is also a detailed presentation of the mechanistic…
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