Books

Commentary on books I have read, both fiction and nonfiction.

Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

Various Works of Travel Writing (2014)

Octavio Paz Appreciation

RIP Gabriel García Márquez

In the Light of What We Know by Zia Haider Rahman

Our Kids by Robert Putnam

Notes on the Death of Culture by Mario Vargas Llosa

The Fractured Republic by Yuval LevinUtopia Drive by Erik Reece

Excerpts from Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

General Notes on Literature I Like, 2018

Beyond the Hundredth Meridian by Wallace Stegner

Winners Take All by Anand Giridharadas

Shortest Way Home by Pete Buttigieg

Blueprint by Nicholas Christakis

Our Man by George Packer

Normal People by Sally Rooney

The Topeka School by Ben Lerner and The Expectations by Alexander Tilney (2 Parts)

The Decadent Society by Ross Douthat

How to Think Like Shakespeare by Scott Newstok

I Came as a Shadow by John Thompson, Jr. and A Promised Land by Barack Obama

Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen

The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty and Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

Intermezzo by Sally Rooney

RIP Mario Vargas Llosa

TV and Film, Which I Apparently Stopped Watching in 2019

Gravity and To the Wonder (2013)

On Wes Anderson (2014)

Y Tu Mamá También (2014)

Boyhood (2014)

The West Wing Reconsidered (2015)

Of Miracles and Men (2015)

Hannah Arendt and Y Tu Mamá También (2015)

Game of Thrones (2015)

La Grande Bellezza (2015)

Show Me a Hero (2015)

Game of Thrones Conclusion (2019)