Essays – Failures in Polymathy

Occasional Views Volume 1: “More About Writing” and Other Essays – Samuel R. Delany

20 year old me would have enjoyed this a lot more than me now.

This is an excellent book on counter-apologetics. It is, however, the last book on the subject I may ever read.

The Portable Curmudgeon is a book of vignettes held together by the slightest of threads

Umberto Eco’s ‘How to travel with a Salmon’ and other essays show a different side of him – well, to most of us.

Oliver Sacks’ “An Anthropologist on Mars” handles a terrifying subject matter in a way that is nothing but fascinating.

Are all interpretations created equal? Some would say so, and some would test the idea further.

In the last days of his life Christopher Hitchens bravely attempted to chronicle his battle with cancer, up until he no longer could.