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★★★★★ It is difficult to critique a book on criticism without entering into the realm of giddy, reflective post-modernism. Yet, Better Living Through Criticism is unflinching in this regard, acting as a book about...
(Photo by Hans Mauerer) Every day is a god, each day is a god, and holiness holds forth in time. I worship each god, I praise each day splintered down, splintered down and...
★★★★☆ Chto, nachalos’? is the sinister question that hangs in the air in 1953 Russia, before Stalin’s final pogrom meant to answer the Jewish Question. Has it begun? Pochti chto is always the response....
Schtick is for Tired Business Men. Art is for the soldier.
★★★★☆ Christopher Hitchens’ reputation precedes him. Many readers, upon seeing the collection of essays that is And Yet… will either gleefully grasp this book or balk, not wanting to engage with “Hitch”.” To the...
★★★★☆ Dismas, Swiss ex-mercenary turned monk turned connoisseur of holy items, is beholden to two patrons: Frederick the Wise of Saxony, protector of Martin Luther, whose collections of relics is rivaled only by the...
★★★☆☆ The Evolution of Everything begins with an intriguing idea – that the conversational use of “evolve” is accurate. Darwin’s evolution, Matt Ridley says, is like the special relativity of evolution, but that the...
★★★★☆ To tell you what Pacific is about would be to make a list, as the number of things discussed in this book seem to proliferate per page. Incidentally this makes it hard to...
★★★☆☆ Imagine if the Avengers weren’t superheroes, but hackers. That’s just what you get with Zer0es, a high intensity, freaked out, sci fi thriller. Five disparate techno-wizards are selected, each with a unique skill...
