Our Man
This is a fascinating and insightful biography of both a guy I, an ignoramus, had not heard of, as well as of American foreign policy over the last half-century. Lots of good stuff here, sharply written, my biggest takeaway being...
2010s
The Emperor Of All Maladies
Medium Raw
Annihilation
3 Streets
Spadework For A Palace
Manic, wonderfully manic, brilliant.
Nevada
How Forests Think
Rules Of Civility
There is something half-full about books by Amor Towles, and I can’t quite place it. Maybe it is just an undue obsession with trappings of wealth? Or maybe they are just without objectionability - feels like most proper literature is...
The Books Of Jacob
A favorite trope of mine is the sprawling geneological novel, painting a picture of a culture and its transformation over time through the story of a particular family throughout several generations - it is a trope I don’t have many...