The Book of Disquiet – Fernando Pessoa
Life for the Portuguese poet certainly is not peachy…
Non-Fiction
The Filter Bubble – Eli Pariser
The internet is no longer a wide field of free information. It’s being given to you mediated, and the mediators are starting to have an effect on us..
Future Crimes – Marc Goodman
Its a great time to be alive. That is, unless you know what is going on. Then its kind of scary.
Fire and Fury – Michael Wolff
A book that needs little introduction
Selected Epigrams – Martial (Translated by Susan McLean)
The first century Roman poet fills you in on just what Roman society was like. It’s not what you think.
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The once and future liberal – Mark Lilla
One of the more unsurprising finger-pointing books regarding the last election, this one aims itself at identity politics.
Words on the move – John McWhorter
John McWhorter knows what he is talking about, and in this volume he goes over much of what people not only do not understand about language, but what many so desperately need to learn about it.
Failures in Polymathy 