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I’ve only read the first half of the new Tom Holland translation of Herdotus’s Histories (I will get to the rest), but surely it deserves note.
John Keay, Midnight’s Descendants: A History of South Asia since Partition . An excellent treatment of how much work remains to be done in the “nation building” enterprise in South Asia.
Howard Eiland and Michael W. Jennings, Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life .
First there are the economics books, including books by people I know, including Piketty, The Second Machine Age , Tim Harford’s wonderful macro explainer , Megan McArdle’s The Up Side of Down , Lane Kenworthy on social democracy , The Fourth Revolution by John Micklethwait and Adrian Woolridge, Daniel Drezner The System Worked , and Frank Buckley on why the Canadian system of government is better . And Russ Roberts, How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and H...
First there are the economics books, including books by people I know, including Piketty, The Second Machine Age , Tim Harford’s wonderful macro explainer , Megan McArdle’s The Up Side of Down , Lane Kenworthy on social democracy , The Fourth Revolution by John Micklethwait and Adrian Woolridge, Daniel Drezner The System Worked , and Frank Buckley on why the Canadian system of government is better . And Russ Roberts, How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and H...
First there are the economics books, including books by people I know, including Piketty, The Second Machine Age , Tim Harford’s wonderful macro explainer , Megan McArdle’s The Up Side of Down , Lane Kenworthy on social democracy , The Fourth Revolution by John Micklethwait and Adrian Woolridge, Daniel Drezner The System Worked , and Frank Buckley on why the Canadian system of government is better . And Russ Roberts, How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and H...
First there are the economics books, including books by people I know, including Piketty, The Second Machine Age , Tim Harford’s wonderful macro explainer , Megan McArdle’s The Up Side of Down , Lane Kenworthy on social democracy , The Fourth Revolution by John Micklethwait and Adrian Woolridge, Daniel Drezner The System Worked , and Frank Buckley on why the Canadian system of government is better . And Russ Roberts, How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and H...
First there are the economics books, including books by people I know, including Piketty, The Second Machine Age , Tim Harford’s wonderful macro explainer , Megan McArdle’s The Up Side of Down , Lane Kenworthy on social democracy , The Fourth Revolution by John Micklethwait and Adrian Woolridge, Daniel Drezner The System Worked , and Frank Buckley on why the Canadian system of government is better . And Russ Roberts, How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and H...
First there are the economics books, including books by people I know, including Piketty, The Second Machine Age , Tim Harford’s wonderful macro explainer , Megan McArdle’s The Up Side of Down , Lane Kenworthy on social democracy , The Fourth Revolution by John Micklethwait and Adrian Woolridge, Daniel Drezner The System Worked , and Frank Buckley on why the Canadian system of government is better . And Russ Roberts, How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and H...
First there are the economics books, including books by people I know, including Piketty, The Second Machine Age , Tim Harford’s wonderful macro explainer , Megan McArdle’s The Up Side of Down , Lane Kenworthy on social democracy , The Fourth Revolution by John Micklethwait and Adrian Woolridge, Daniel Drezner The System Worked , and Frank Buckley on why the Canadian system of government is better . And Russ Roberts, How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and H...
First there are the economics books, including books by people I know, including Piketty, The Second Machine Age , Tim Harford’s wonderful macro explainer , Megan McArdle’s The Up Side of Down , Lane Kenworthy on social democracy , The Fourth Revolution by John Micklethwait and Adrian Woolridge, Daniel Drezner The System Worked , and Frank Buckley on why the Canadian system of government is better . And Russ Roberts, How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and H...
That is from the new and notable The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins , by Hal Whitehead and Luke Rendell, previously covered on MR here . And here is my earlier post on the economics of dolphins .
It doesn’t sound quite righ t to still call it that, does it ? In any case it is on display at the National Museum of African Art . At least two-thirds of the collection is lame and maybe a third or somewhat less is wonderful. Cosby for instance has excellent works by Jacob Lawrence, Horace Pippin , Minnie Evans , Henry Ossawa Tanner , (and here ), Romare Bearden, some amazing quilts and textiles (try here too ), and quality African ethnographic pieces. The works by lesser-known creators are...
It doesn’t sound quite righ t to still call it that, does it ? In any case it is on display at the National Museum of African Art . At least two-thirds of the collection is lame and maybe a third or somewhat less is wonderful. Cosby for instance has excellent works by Jacob Lawrence, Horace Pippin , Minnie Evans , Henry Ossawa Tanner , (and here ), Romare Bearden, some amazing quilts and textiles (try here too ), and quality African ethnographic pieces. The works by lesser-known creators are...
Here is one blog post report on these practices . Here is one piece of the original research . I stumbled upon this while reading the new and excellent Hal Whitehead and Luke Rendell The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins , a new book from University of Chicago Press.
5. Pramoedya Ananta Toer, This Earth of Mankind , volume one of the Buru Quartet. These are the greatest books which most educated people never read, and I am giving them a reread. So far volume one is as good as I remember it, maybe better. I think of the set as an extended, four-volume meditation, by an Indonesian political prisoner, on what a life really consists of. Here is a short essay on the quartet .
3. Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey, The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money are Challenging the Global Economic Order . A good and useful introduction to the beliefs of those who believe in the subtitle being true.
2. Richard Bernstein, China 1945: Mao’s Revolution and America’s Fateful Choice . A very good book on how the Americans had a decent relationship with the Chinese Communists in 1945 and how rapidly that fell apart and why.
1. Daniel Schreiber, Susan Sontag: A Biography . I never tire reading about her, or reading her, for that matter.
The story is here , his book is Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China . Previous MR coverage is here , it was one of my favorite non-fiction books of the year.
Viola , an Argentinean take on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night , condensed into 65 minutes.
From Chris Taylor’s new How Star Wars Conquered the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of a Multibillion Dollar Franchise :
This passage is from Gao Wenqian’s Zhou Enlai: The Last Perfect Revolutionary :
That is from the extraordinary new Stephen Kotkin biography of Stalin, titled Stalin . The first volume of 949 pp. brings the reader up only until 1928. A lot still happened after that.
That is from Christian Caryl in the 4 December 2014 New York Review of Books, reviewing Gerald Russell’s Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East .