I'm an avid book reader and reviewer located in San Antonio, Texas. These videos are meant to help potential readers of these books to decide whether they might find them interesting or worth their time. I welcome all questions, comments and concerns regarding the content herein.
Opus Pistorum, Henry Miller
Voss, Patrick White
Three Plays, Eugene O'Neill
Omeros, Derek Walcott
The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, Sir Philip Sydney
The Leopard, Giuseppe di Lampedusa
Black Boy, Richard Wright
Almanac of the Dead: A Novel, Leslie Marmon Silko
Cosmopolis, Don DeLillo
Operation Shylock, Philip Roth
Isara, Wole Soyinka
Lanark, Alasdair Gray
The Examined Life: Philosophical Meditations, Robert Nozick
Literature and Western Man, J. B. Priestley
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Books discussed include:
The Citadel, A. J. Cronin
Spook Country, William Gibson
Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders, John Mortimer
Rumpole and the Primrose Path, John Mortimer
The Private Patient, P. D. James
Fin-de-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture, Carl Schorske
Crowds and Power, Elias Canetti
Around the Cragged Hill: A Personal and Political Philosophy, George F. Kennan
The Rule of Benedict: Pope Benedict XVI and his Battle with the Modern World, David Gibson
Islam, Alfred Guillaume
A Modern Instance, William D. Howells
The Muse Learns to Write, Eric Havelock
The Savage Detectives, Roberto Bolano
The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide, Robert Jay Lifton
Man and Nature in the Renaissance, Allen Debus
Before Night Falls, Reinaldo Arenas
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Books discussed include:
Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights, Maria Warner
The Fate of Africa, Martin Meredith
Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography, William Lee Miller
Mapp and Lucia, E. F. Benson
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Thomas De Quincey
Pierre; Or, the Ambiguities, Herman Melville
Contemporaries (Collection of Literary Essays), Alfred Kazin
The Modern Mind, Peter Watson
Classics for Pleasure, Michael Dirda
On Jung, Anthony Stevens
Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy, Bernard Williams
Kolyma Tales, Varlam Shalamov
The Return of the Soldier, Rebecca West
The Strength of Poetry: The Oxford Lectures, James Fenton
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Books discussed include:
Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant
Auto-da-fe, Elias Canetti
Vile Bodies, Evelyn Waugh
Bertram Cope's Year, Henry Flake Fuller
A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters, Julian Barnes
The Worldly Philosophers, Robert Heilbroner
Machiavelli in Hell, Sebastian de Grazia
The Revenge of Geography, Robert D. Kaplan
Present at the Creation, Dean Acheson
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as they strike me as relevant. I welcome
questions, comments, or concerns about the material contained in this video.]
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material contained in this video.
Books discussed include (not including the ones I forgot
from the last book haul):
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History,
Stephen Jay Gould
Russian Thinkers, Isaiah Berlin
Babel Tower, A. S. Byatt
The Devil Tree, Jerzy Kosinski
Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline, Richard Posner
The Nightmare Years: 1930-1940, William L. Shirer
Anthropology as Cultural Critique, George Marcus &
Michael Fischer
[The above video is mostly a
reading of the text below, with an occasional aside thrown in for good measure
as they strike me as relevant. I welcome
questions, comments, or concerns about the material contained in this video.]
I welcome questions, comments, or concerns about the
material contained in this video.
Books discussed include (not including the ones I forgot
from the last book haul):
The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of
History, Philip Bobbitt
Introduction to the Human Sciences, Wilhelm Dilthey
Testaments Betrayed, Milan Kundera
A Time of Gifts, Patrick Leigh Fermor
William Marshal, Georges Duby
The Idea of the Self, Jerrold Seigel
Axel’s Castle, Edmund Wilson
An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology, Pierre Bourdieu
[The above video is mostly a
reading of the text below, with an occasional aside thrown in for good measure
as they strike me as relevant. I welcome
questions, comments, or concerns about the material contained in this video.]
Books discussed include:
The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace, H. W. Brands
The Cambridge Companion to Kant, ed. Paul Guyer
The Cambridge Companion to Kant, ed. Jonathan Barnes
Metahistory: The Historical Imagination In Nineteenth-Century Europe, Hayden White
Angels Fear: Towards an Epistemology of the Sacred, Bateson & Bateson
The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of Cities, Richard Sennett
The Successor, Ismail Kadare
Libra, Don DeLillo
Renaissance Diplomacy, Garrett Mattingly
The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey Eugenides
Mules and Men, Zora Neale Hurston
Eleanor of Aquitaine, Alison Weir
The Whole World is Watching: Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left, Todd Gitlin
Habits of the Heart, Bellah, Madsen, Sullivan, Swidler, & Tipton
Generation: The Seventeenth-Century Scientists Who Unraveled the Secrets of Sex, Life, and Growth, Matthew Cobb
Faustus: The Life and Times of A Renaissance Magician, Leo Ruickbie
God's Chinese Children: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xuiquan, Jonathan D. Spence
A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present, Anderson & Zinsser
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above video is mostly a reading of the text below, with an occasional aside
thrown in for good measure as they strike me as relevant. I
welcome questions, comments, or concerns about the material contained in this
video.]
I welcome questions, comments, or concerns about the material contained in this video.
Books discussed include:
Budapest 1900: A History Portrait of a City and Its Culture, John Lukacs
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate, Robert Caro
The Last Lion, II: Winston Churchill Alone, 1932-1940, William Manchester
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, Peter Handke
Errand Into the Wilderness, Perry Miller
Mephistopheles, Jeffrey Burton Russell
Gold and Iron: Bismarck, Bleichroder, and the Building of the German Empire, Fritz Stern
Masscult and Midcult: Essays Again the American Grain, Dwight Macdonald
On the Black Hill, Bruce Chatwin
Losing Battles, Eudora Welty
Vathek, William Beckford
The Rings of Saturn, W. G. Sebald
Balzac, Graham Robb
The Balfour Declaration, Jonathan Schneer
Ezra Pound: The Solitary Volcano, John Tytell
Anthropology and Anthropologists: The Modern British School, Adam Kuper
Officers and Gentlemen, Evelyn Waugh
That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana, Carlo Emilio Gadda
The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, Daniel Bell
The Flake Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood, Elspeth Huxley
I welcome questions, comments, or concerns about the material contained in this video.
Books discussed include:
Scoop, Evelyn Waugh
Champlain's Dream, David Hackett Fischer
A Literature of Their Own, Elaine Showalter
To End All Wars, Adam Hochschild
Private Lives, Public Spirit: Britain 1870-1914, Jose Harris
The Diary of A Nobody, George and Weedon Grossmith
A History of Private Life, Philippe Aries and Georges Duby (Ed.)
Shirley, Charlotte Bronte
Apologia Pro Vita Sua, John Henry Newman
When Harlem Was In Vogue, David Levering Lewis
I welcome questions, comments, or concerns about the material contained in this video.
Books discussed include:
The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible, Robin Lane Fox
Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, Tony Judt
Irretrievable, Theodor Fontane
Thunder at Twilight: Vienna 1913/1914, Frederic Morton
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
The Mysteries of Udolpho, Ann Radcliffe
The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution, Jonathan Spence
The Hour of Our Death, Philippe Aries
Hope and Glory: Britain 1900-1990, Peter Clarke
George Herbert and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Poets, Norton Critical Edition
Palace of Desire (Volume II of "The Cairo Trilogy"), Naguib Mahfouz
Sugar Street (Volume III of "The Cairo Trilogy"), Naguib Mahfouz
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan, Herbert. P. Bix
Mao's Great Famine, Frank Dikotter
The Icon and the Axe: An Interpretive History of Russian Culture, James H. Billington
The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russian, Richard Overy
Richard II and the Revolution of 1399, Michael Bennett
I welcome questions, comments, or concerns about the material contained in this video.
Books discussed include:
The Third Reich At War, Richard J Evans
The Making of England 55 B. C. to 1399, C. Warren Hollister
The Russian Revolution 1917-1932, Sheila Fitzpatrick
Sexual Politics, Kate Millett
Origins Reconsidered, Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin
The Path to Power, Robert A. Caro
Nausea, Jean-Paul Sartre
A History of the Jews in America, Howard M. Sachar
Victoria: An Intimate Biography, Stanley Weintraub
Mildred Pierce, James P. Cain
The Thurber Carnival, James Thurber
Down There On A Visit, Christopher Isherwood
When Nietzsche Wept, Irvin Yalom
The Complete Short Stories, Vol. II, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Drift, Rachel Maddow
The Complete Stories of Truman Capote, Truman Capote
The Ethnographer's Magic, George Stocking
Early Modern England 1485-1714, Bucholz and Key
The Spirit of the Age, edited by Gertrude Himmelfarb
