#robert calasso

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“The graduate workforce of the 2010s had internalised the capitalist realism described by Mark Fisher as an ‘anti-mythical myth’. Tracing the roots of the present beneath the rubble of antiquity, the Italian writer and mythographer Roberto Calasso pinpoints a transformative moment within the ancient practice of sacrifice. While in the practice’s earliest form, the sacrificial victim was deemed irreplaceable, it later became acceptable to use a stand-in victim. In the mythos of the Trojan war a sacrifice had to be made before the Greeks could first set sale: the king had to kill his daughter for the winds to go his way. Yet in certain tellings Iphigenia is snatched from the altar, replaced at the crucial moment with a deer of equal worth.

Such acts of replacement conform to what Calasso describes as a reduction of sacrifice to ‘pure exchange’. This, he argues, immeasurably expands the power of those who trade. Indeed, as long as the exchange is ‘fair’, the irreplaceable beings who profit from these transactions do so without judgement, or even recognition. The violence of these acts of substitution comes to be obscured by the syntax of exchange, portending the imagined neutrality of the godless invisible hand. ‘In the end’, writes Calasso, ‘the world will be inhabited only by substitutes, hence by victims unaware that they are victims, because the irreplaceable priest who raises the knife over them has no name and no shape’.”

— Amber Husain, from Replace Me

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In The Time of The Great Raven

In the time of the Great Raven even the invisible was visible. And it continually transformed itself. Animals, at that time, were not necessarily animals. They might happen to be animals, but sometimes they were humans, gods, lords of a species, demons, ancestors. And humans weren’t necessarily humans but could also be the transient form of something else. There were no tricks for recognizing those that appeared. They had to be already known, as one knows a friend or an adversary. Everything, from spiders to the dead, occurred within a single flow of forms. It was the realm of metamorphosis.

- Roberto Calasso, "The Celestial Hunter"

Drawing by Robert Moss

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Reader: Bhagirathy Reading: Quote from Ka: Stories of the Minds and Gods of India by Robert Calasso.

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  Oliver Sacks: His Own Life Director: Ric Burns Running time 114 minutes Cast: Jonathan Miller, Robert Silvers, Temple Grandin, Christof Koch, Robert Krulwich, Lawrence Weschler, Roberto Calasso, Paul Theroux, Bill Hayes, Kate Edgar, Atul Gawande Synopsis: The life and career of the renowned neurologist and author, Dr. Oliver Sacks. URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCF5FvwdPVs Oliver Sacks:…

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Che fine hanno fatto i librai? Un vero libraio deve consigliare l’inconsigliabile. Passeggiata in libreria con Robert Walser

Non frequento molto il mondo al di fuori delle concilianti mura di casa, se non per inoltrarmi pei boschi o varcare la soglia della libreria, l’unica rimasta (gli empori non m’interessano e m’angosciano) ad avere ancora un libraio, nella triste città dove vivo. Luca, è questo il nome del libraio, deve pur campare. Ed è inevitabile che debba assecondare l’incapacità di discernere tra il sublime e l’indegno e il pessimo gusto dei clienti. Luca, in cuor suo, consiglierebbe l’inconsigliabile. Gli ho fatto conoscere Thomas Bernhard e i romanzi altri e alti di Nabokov. È stato lui a iniziarmi a Simenon e Marai. Ed è sempre lui che ordina i carteggi di Proust per regalarli alla persona amata. E quando varco la soglia del suo mondo sa già che non ha bisogno di dirmi quale novità sia stata pubblicata, soprattutto quando questa novità è adornata da insulse fascette riguardanti vituperati e sviliti premi letterari. Ma non tutti i librai sono come Luca. Non esistono forse più nemmeno, i librai. 

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La mia fantasia, quindi, spesso disegna inopinati quanto spassosi scenari: tra i tanti e mai troppi libri da lui acquistati ce n’è uno, in particolare, che cela tra le sue pagine proprio la scena perfetta, quella che tanto mi piacerebbe vivere e impersonare. Il libro è La passeggiata di Robert Walser, forse il testo più alto dello scrittore svizzero; e la scena perfetta è quella del protagonista che entra (appunto) in una libreria: “Una ben fornita libreria mi attrasse straordinariamente e mi venne voglia di dedicarle una visita fugace, sicché non esitai ad entrarvi con molto garbo, supponendo naturalmente di avere più l’aria di un severo revisore contabile, di un ispettore, di un collezionista di novità e fine intenditore, che non di un ricco , amato e ben accolto compratore e buon cliente. Con voce cortese e sommamente riguardosa, usando – non occorre dirlo – le più elette espressioni, m’informai di tutto ciò che di nuovo e migliore offriva il campo delle belle lettere. ‘Posso’ chiesi timidamente ‘conoscere e apprezzare sul momento quanto v’è di più valido e di più serio e al tempo stesso (s’intende) di più letto e prontamente ammirato e acquistato? Ella mi obbligherebbe in modo eccezionale se mi volesse usare la compiacenza di esibirmi il libro che, come nessuno può sapere meglio di lei, ha ottenuto il maggior favore sia tra il pubblico che legge, sia presso la temuta e perciò vezzeggiata critica, e il cui successo continua a mantenersi vivo’. In verità m’interessa sommamente apprendere quale sia, fra le opere della penna qui accumulate o messe in mostra, il fortunato libro in questione, la vista del quale farà di me, con ogni probabilità, un acquirente sollecito, lieto, entusiasta. Il desiderio di vedermi dinanzi lo scrittore prediletto dal mondo della cultura, nonché il suo ammirato e freneticamente applaudito capolavoro, per poi, come le dissi, comprarlo subito, mi pervade con tutte le membra. ‘Potrei cortesemente rivolgerle la più viva preghiera di mostrarmi questo libro d’impareggiabile successo, sicché l’ansia che si è impadronita di me si plachi e cessi alfine di agitarmi?’. ‘Con piacere’ disse il libraio. Ratto come una freccia sparì dalla mia vista, per poi ripresentarsi un attimo dopo all’avido amatore tenendo il libro di non effimera validità, venduto e letto più di ogni altro. Quel prezioso parto dell’intelletto era da lui recato con la stessa solenne compostezza di una reliquia santificante. Il suo volto era estatico; l’espressione irradiava sommo rispetto. Con le labbra atteggiate a quel sorriso che proprio solo di chi sia intimamente compenetrato, egli depose innanzi a me, col fare più suadente, l’oggetto della sua pronta ricerca”.

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E, nel continuare a tessere la mia fantasticheria, immagino il solerte libraio recar tra le sue mani Il colibrì di Sandro Veronesi. Ma si può sostituire l’altissimo romanziere con un Missoroli o una Ferrante senza intaccare il raccapriccio. E m’immagino recitare proprio queste parole, immagino la scena dipanarsi proprio come nel romanzo di Walser: “Io gettai al libro uno sguardo severo e chiesi: ‘Può lei giurarmi che questo è il libro di maggior successo dell’anno?’. ‘Senza dubbio’. ‘Può affermare che questo è il libro che bisogna assolutamente aver letto?’. ‘Assolutamente’. ‘È davvero un bel libro?’. ‘La sua domanda è del tutto superflua e inopportuna!’. ‘La ringrazio molto’ dissi imperturbabile, lasciai dove si trovava il libro che aveva ottenuto il massimo successo di vendita perché bisognava assolutamente averlo letto, e uscii senz’altro aggiungere, ossia in perfetto silenzio. ‘Uomo ignorante e incolto!’ non mancò di gridarmi dietro il libraio, nel suo giustificato corruccio. Ma io lo lasciai dire e continuai per la mia strada”.

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Ora, il romanzo di Walser è stato pubblicato nel 1919 e, come scrive Calasso: “basterebbe confrontare i libri degli ultimi vent’anni con quelli apparsi nei primi vent’anni del Novecento. Confronto che risulterebbe schiacciante, in sfavore del presente”. Ma le parole, i versi, gli scritti dei grandi rimangono e rimarranno sempre immortali e visionari. Robert Walser mi ha insegnato e ci ha insegnato come affrontare le librerie o quel che ne rimane nella tetra rappresentazione odierna. Intanto squilla il telefono: è Luca che mi avverte che Sotto il ferro della luna, la raccolta di poesie di Thomas Bernhard è arrivato. Due copie. Le due copie che ci spartiremo.

Cosimo Mongelli

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Con la sua "calligrafia da insetto" (così la definiva), Borges scriveva annotazioni sui risguardi dei libri, evitando con cura di apportare segni sulle pagine stampate. Nella sua copia della Royal Art of Astrology di Robert Eisler, il più sfortunato e misconosciuto fra i grandi visionari eruditi del Novecento, si trovano due rimandi che illuminano ugualmente sia Eisler sia Borges stesso. Nel primo si legge: "Gli oroscopi individuali - 165", corrispondente a questo passo del libro: "L'idea che gli eterni dèi astrali possano essere intimamente coinvolti nel fato e nel carattere di qualsiasi Tom, Dick e Harriet - "così tanti dèi che infuriano in una sola testa" (tot circa unum caput tumultuantes deos), come diceva con tono beffardo il filosofo Seneca - non sarebbe potuta venire in mente ad alcun Assiro, Babilonese o anche a un Egiziano o a un Etiope". Ne conseguiva che l'idea dell'oroscopo individuale poteva essere stata sviluppata solamente dalla cultura greca. Ed era un modo fra i tanti, ma assai eloquente, per distaccare l'Europa da ogni Asia. L'altra pagina isolata da Borges era ancora più significativa, perché insinuava gli astri all'interno di ogni attività, anche di chi li ignora. Questa l'annotazione di Borges: "Contemplation, consideration - 261", riferita al seguente passo di Eisler: "Sarebbe difficile, se non impossibile, trovare un altro corpo di dottrine che abbia così profondamente influenzato - a dispetto di tutte le critiche rivolte in ogni epoca alle sue palesi manchevolezze - il comportamento di tanti individui eminenti di tutte le epoche e di tutti i paesi, lasciando un'impronta incancellabile nella lingua inglese e in tutte le lingue romanze, sicché fino ad oggi siamo costretti a usare un termine astrologico ogni volta che vogliamo "con-siderare" ciò che stiamo per fare riguardo a questo o quel problema - in quanto la "con-siderazione" non è altro che l'atto di confrontarsi con l'influenza dei vari astri (sidera) sulla decisione "contemplata", mentre la contemplazione stessa significava in origine la costruzione di un diagramma che divideva il cielo in quadranti - operazione chiamata templum dagli antichi auguri etruschi e intesa a facilitare l'interpretazione sistematica dei portenti osservati da chi studiava il cielo." da R. Calasso, Come ordinare una biblioteca

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ROBERTO CALASSO (1941-2021)

Daniel Defoe, Roberto Bazlen, Virginia Woolf, Walter de la Mare, Friedrich Nietzsche, Giorgio Colli, Mazzino Montinari, Carlo Dossi, Alberto Arbasino, Alfred Kubin, Edmund Gosse, J.Rodolfo Wilkock, Oliver Sacks, Eugenio Montale, Jorge Louis Borges, Jan Potocki, Enzo Turolla, Antonin Artaud, George Groddeck, Ingebor Bachmann, Phil Backer, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Conrad Lorenz, Sergio Quinzio, Sergio Solmi, Elemire Zolla, René Daumal, Cristina Campo, Pietro Citati, Tullio Gregory, Ugo Von Hofmannstal, Herman Bahr, Robert Walser, Franz Kafka, Max Brod, Robert Musil, Fleu Jaeggy, Marcel Granet, James Hillman, Karl Kraus, Marcel Schowb, Guido Ceronetti, Robert Louis Stevenson, Herman Melville, Charles Olson, Joseph Roth, Daniel Paul Schreber, Elias Canetti, Guido Morselli, Herman Hesse, René Guenon, Wassilj Rozanov, Andrej Sinjavskij, Soren Kirkegaard, Albeto Savinio, Gregory Bateson, Karen Blixen, Jiurgis Baltrusaitis, Louis Seguin, Salvatore Satta, George Steiner, Fernando Pessoa, Antonio Tabucchi, Mario Praz, Tatti Sanguineti, Massimo Cacciari, Emanuele Severino, Thomas Bernard, Oran Pamuk, Bruce Chatwin, Simon Weil, Alexander Lernet-Holenia, Gottfried Benn, Leonardo Scascia, Manlio Sgalambro, Ceslaw Milosz, E.M. Cioran, Georges Simenon, Paul Valery, Charles Giuld, Martin Hidegger, Nina Berberova, Ernst Junger, Sàndor Màrai, Robert Huges, Marc Fumaroli, Robert Graves, Francesco Colonna, Wislawa Szymborska, Mario Bortolotto, Mordechai Richler, Somerset Maugham, Elizabeth Bishop, Tullio Pericoli, Stefan Zweig, Anna Politkovskaja, Goffred Parise, William S. Burroughs, Marina Cvataeva, Benedetto Coce, Alexandre Kojeve, Frank McCourt, V.S. Naipul, Roberto Bolano, Muriel Spark, Osip Mandel'stam, Edward Gorey, Ian Fleming, Neil MacGregor…

Probabilmente senza di lui non li avremmo mai letti e non avremmo nemmeno letto i suoi libri.

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“The world is like an impression left by the telling of a story.” Robert Calasso

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Reading de Nacht Reading 2019

                              my favourite books of the year

my overall favourite book of the year:

martin hägglund "this life why mortality makes us free" (2019)

postcyberpunkstompf:

01 ken liu (ed) "broken stars: contemporary chinese sf in translation" (2019)

02 cory doctorow "radicalized" (2019) 03 dave hutchinson "the return of the incredible exploding man" (2019)   + dave hutchinson "nomads" (2019)   + dave hutchinson "thumbprints" (1978)   + dave hutchinson "torn air" (1980)   + dave hutchinson "the push" (2009)   + dave hutchinson "the villages" (2002)   ... damn that elusive "paradise equation" (1981) ... 04 tade thompson "rosewater" (2016)   + tade thompson "rosewater insurrection" (2019)   + tade thompson "rosewater redemption" (2019) 05 desirina boskovich (ed) "lost transmissions: the secret history of sf & f" (2019)

06 hannu rajaniemi & jacob weisman (eds) "the new voices of science fiction" (2019) 07 gardner dozois (ed) "the very best of the best: 35 years of the year's best science fiction" (2019) 08 jonathan strahan (ed) "the best science fiction & fantasy of the year, volume thirteen" (2019) 09 robert markeley "kim stanley robinson modern masters of sf" (2019) 10 allan kaster (ed) "the year's top hard sf stories 3" (2019)

11 olivier girard (ed) "bifrost 96 la revue des mondes imaginaires: william gibson" (2019) 12 mario guglielminetti "web is over. parabola ed esplosione di ubuweb, l'antiprofilo" (2019) 13 bryan thomas schmidt (ed) "infinite stars: dark frontiers" (2019) 14 baoshu "the redemption of time" [2011] (2019) 15 cixin liu "the supernova era" [2003] (2019)

16 l. x. beckett "gamechanger" (2019) 17 gareth l powell "fleet of knives" (2019) 18 chen qiufan "waste tide" [2013] (2019) 19 derek künsken "the quantum garden" (2019) 20 gregory benford "rewrite: loops in the timescape" (2019)

21 james s.a. corey "tiamat's wrath" (2019)   + james s.a. corey "auberon" (2019) 22 jim al-khalili "sunfall" (2019) 23 peter f hamilton "salvation lost"  (2019) 24 neal asher "the warship" (2019) 25 jonathan strahan (ed) "mission critical" (2019)

26 jack mcdevitt "octavia gone" (2019) 27 elizabeth bear "ancestral night" (2019) 28 ian mcdonald "moon rising" (2019) 29 carmen maria machado (ed) "the best american sf & f 2019" (2019) 30 valerie valdes "chilling effect" (2019) 31 simon morden "bright morning star" (2019)      + s. j. morden "no way" (2019) 32 neil stephenson "fall or, dodge in hell" (2019) 33 graham edwards "string city" (2019)

klassikstompf:

01 arno schmidt "bottom's dream" [1970] (2016) ... & still reading ...

02 jorge luis borgès "borgès restored (the author's preferred translations)" (2016) 03 julie orringer "the flight portfolio" (2019)   + julie orringer "the invisible bridge" (2010) 04 pola oloixarac "savage theories" (2017)   + pola oloixarac "dark constellations" (2019) 05 simon critchley "memory theatre" (2014)

06 gabriel josipovici "hotel andromeda" (2014) 07 david keenan "for the good times" (2019) 08 wg sebald "vertigo" [1990] (1999)   + wg sebald "the emmigrants" [1992] (1996)   + wg sebald "the rings of saturn" [1995] (1998)   + wg sebald "austerlitz" (2001) 09 luis chitarroni "the no variations "diary of an unfinished novel" [2007] (2013) 10 julián ríos "larva: a midsummer night's babel" [1983] (1991)

11 césar aira "birthday" [2001] (2019)   + césar aira "three novels" [1990-2000-1997] (2018) 12 tom mole "the secret life of books" (2019) 13 lucy ives "loudermilk or the real poet or the origin of the world" (2019) 14 lászló krasznahorkai "baron wenckheim's homecoming" [2016] (2019) 15 lucy ellmann "ducks, newburyport" (2019)

16 lars iyer "nietzsche & the burbs" (2019) 17 d harlan wilson "the psychotic dr. schreber" (2019) 18 andrew gallix (ed) "we'll never have paris" (2019) 19 chris kelso (ed) "i transgress" (2019) 20 john crowley "the solitudes" [1987] (2007)   + john crowley "love & sleep" (1994)   + john crowley "daemonomania" (2000)   + john crowley "endless things" (2007) ... (the aegypt cycle)

polarstompf:

01 carlos ruiz zafón "the labyrinth of the spirits" [2017] (2018)

02 volker kutscher "the fatherland files" [2012] (2019) 03 andrea camilleri "the overnight kidnapper" [2015] (2019)   + andrea camilleri "the other end of the line" [2016] (2019) 04 mick herron "joe country" (2019)   + mick herron "this is what happened" (2018)   + mick herron "nobody walks" (2015) 05 john le carré "agent running the field" (2019)

06 guillaume musso "la vie secrète des écrivains" (2019) 07 luke mccallin "the man from berlin" (2013)   + luke mccallin "the pale house" (2014)   + luke mccallin "the divided city" (2016) 09 henry porter "brandenburg" [2005] (2019)   + henry porter "firefly" (2018)   + henry porter "white hot silence" (2019) 10 mitch silver "the bookworm" (2018)   + mitch silver "in secret service" (2007)

11 alan judd "the accidental agent" (2019) 12 philip kerr "metropolis" (2019) 13 ian rankin "westwind" (2019) 14 jo nesbø "the knife" (2019) 15 david hewson "devil's fjord" (2019)

16 barry forshaw "crime fiction: a reader's guide" (2019) 17 a.a. dhand "one way out" (2019) 18 martin holmén "clinch: the stockholm trilogy 01" (2016)   + martin holmén "down for te count: the stockholm trilogy 02" (2017)   + martin holmén "slugger: the stockholm trilogy 03" (2019) 19 michael kestemont "de zwarte koning" (2019) 20 soren sveistrup "the chestnut man" [2018] (2019)

21 tim mason "the darwin affair" (2019) 22 patrick conrad "good night, charlie" (2019) 23 chris pavone "the paris diversion" (2019) 24 dov aflon "a long night in paris" (2019) 25 arne dahl "hunted" [2017] (2019)

                                  RIP ANDREA CAMILLERI !

gedächtnisstompf:

01 martin hägglund "this life: why mortality makes us free" (2019) /                            "this life: secular faith & spiritual freedom" (2019)

02 derrida "la vie la mort: séminaire (1975-1976)" (2019) 03 jean-luc nancy "derrida, suppléments”  (2019) 04 jean-françois bouthors et jean-luc nancy "démocratie! hic et nunc" (2019) 05 hannah arendt "de vrijheid om vrij te zijn" (2019)      + hannah arendt "nous autres réfugiés" (2019)

06 mckenzie wark "capital is dead": is this something worse?" (2019) 07 johan schokker & tim schokker      "extimiteit: jacques lacan's terugkeer naar freud" (2000) 08 gerhard richter & ann schmock (eds) "give the word:      responses to werner hamacher's 95 theses on philology"    (2019) 09 ranja n gosh "philosophy & poetry: continental perspectives" (2019) 10 shoshana zuboff "the age of surveillance capitalism" (2019)

11 kate zambrano "screen tests: stories & other writing" (2019) 12 daniele carluccio "roland barthes lecteur" (2019) 13 jean-clet martin "la philosophie de gilles deleuze" (2019) 14 mitchell dean & daniel zamora  "le dernier homme et la fin de la révolution:          foucault après mai 68" (2019) 15 arnon grunberg "vriend & vijand: decadentie, ondergang & verlossing" (2019)

16 kwami anthony appiah      "de leugens die ons verbinden: een nieuwe kijk op identiteit" [2018] (2019) 17 quentin meillassoux "science fiction & extro-science fiction" (2015) 18 roberto calasso "het onbenoembare verleden" [2017] (2019) 19 lydia davis "essays" (2019) 20 denise riley "time lived, without its flow" (2019)

poesisstompf:

zoë skoulding "footnotes to water" (2019)

platterstompf:

01 rick moody "on celestial music, and other adventures in listening" (2012)

02 yann courtiau "frictions:   ce que la littérature a fait à la musique et ce que la musique a en a fait" (2019) 03 vivien goldman "revenge of the she-punks:      a feminist music history from poly styrene to pussy riot" (2019) 04 garrígos, triana & guerra "god save the queens: pioneras del punk" (2019) 05 jon savage "this searing light, the sun & everything else:      joy division the oral history" (2019)

06 richard beck "trains, jesus, and murder: the gospel according to johnny cash" 07 mark lanegan "sleevenotes" (2019) 08 jason williamson "jason williamson's house party: sleaford mods 2014-2019" (2019) 09 gallix, hill, & rose (eds) "love bites: fiction inspired by pete shelley" (2019) 10 greg laurie "johnny cash the redemption of an american icon" (2019)

11 marc vos & toon loenders "siglo xx:     opdat de dood ons levend vindt & het leven ons niet doodt" (2019) 12 david sandilands & david keenan "go ahead & drop the bomb      (memorial device pamflet)" (2019) 13 guillaume belhomme "pop fin de siècle" (2019) 14 chris bohn (ed) "the wire" (magazine) (2019) 15 sylvain sylvain "there's no bones in ice cream:      sylvain sylvain's story of the new york dolls" (2018)

16 debbie harry "face it" (2019) 17 jaime gonzalo "poder freak: una crónica de la contracultura vol III" (2014) 18 matthew bower & samantha davies "talisman angelical" (2017) 19 darryl w bullock "the world's worst records: an arcade of audio atrocity vol I" (2013)   + darryl w bullock "the world's worst records: another arcade of audio atrocity vol II" (2015) 20 steve zisson (ed) "a punk rock future" (2019) /      ivar muñoz-rojas "underground babilonia" (2019)

bilderstompf:

01 didier ottinger "bacon en toutes lettres" (2019)

02 antoni tàpies "cap braços cames cos" (2012)   + antoni tàpies "mahlerei und graphik" (2011) 03 laura oldfield ford "savage messiah" (2019) 04 fred vermorel "dead fashion girl: a situationist detective story" (2019) 05 françois schuiten & jaco van dormael "le dernier pharaon" (2019)

06 ken krimstein "the three escapes of hannah arendt: the tyranny of truth" (2018) 07 erik bindervoet & saskia pfaeltzer "aldus sprach nietzsche's zuster" (2019) 08 anthony n fragola & roch c smith "the erotic dream machine: interviews with alain robbe-grillet on his films" (2006)

cyclostompf:

01 bernard chambaz "petite philosophie du vélo" (2019)

02 filip osselaer "de man die doodging (vervolgens mosselen bestelde,      de rekening vroeg en verdween): el tarangu, josé manuel fuente" (2019) 03 peter schmink "de cultus van het lijden: een vrije oefening" (2006) 04 laurent willame "les lieux sacrés du cyclisme:     15 pélérinages à faire avant de crever" (2019) 05 jonas heyerick (ed) "bahamontes: uit liefde voor de stiel" [magazine] (2019)

06 johnny vansevenant "1969, het jaar van eddy merckx" (2019) 07 edwin winkels "la vuelta: heroïsche verhalen uit de ronde van spanje" (2019) 08 frederik baeckelandt "fausto coppi (les héros 04)" (2019) 09 harry pearson "the beast, the emperor & the milkman:      a bone-shaking tour through cycling’s flemish heartlands" (2019) 10 peter cossins "the yellow jersey / le maillot jaune" (2019)

11 thijs zonneveld "het panini album" (2019) 12 thijs zonneveld "de fiets, de fiets & nog veel meer sportverhalen" (2019) 13 willy vangenechten "hoe word je een wielerfan (en blijf je er een)?" (2019)

some wissenschaftstompf & autres divertissements ...:

01 robert macfarlane "underland: a deep time journey" (2019)

02 george van hal & ans hekkenberg "het kosmisch rariteitenkabinet" (2019) 03 josey waley-cohen "only connect: the difficult second quiz book" (2019)

… tsundoku !

may your home be safe from tigers, leroy, x HNY!

... the annual out of control TBR pile ...

postcyberpunkstompf

ada hoffmann "the outside" (2019) adrian tchaikovsky "children of ruin" (2019) alastair reynolds "shadow captain" (2019) + alastair reynolds "permafrost" (2019) annalee newitz "the future of another timeline" (2019) charlie jane anders "the city in the middle of the night" (2019) farah mendlesohn "the pleasant profession of robert a heinlein" (2019)gareth l powell "ragged alice" (2019) greg egan "perihelion summer" (2019) ian creasey "the shapes of strangers" (2019) jo walton "lent" (2019)

kameron hurley "the light brigade" (2019) karl schroeder "stealing words" (2019) megan o'keefe "velocity weapon" (2019) neil clarke (ed) "the eagle has landed: 50 years of lunar sf" (2019) nina allan "the silverwind" (2019) paul di filippo "aeota" (2019) peter swirski "stanislaw lem: philosopher of the future" (2019) + peter swirski & waclaw m osadnik (eds) "lemography: stanislaw lem in the eyes of the world" (2019) richard kadrey "the grand dark" (2019) rudy rucker "million mile road trip" (2019) simon ings "the smoke" (2019)

klassikstompf

alex landragin "crossings" (2019) enrique vila-matas "mac's problem" [2017] (2019) joseph scapellato "the made-up man" (2019) kevin breatnach "tunnelvision" (2019) michel houellebecq "serotonin" (2019) nell zink "doxology" (2019) roberto bolaño "the spirit of science fiction: a novel" (2019) samanta schweblin "mouthful of birds" (2019) sergio pitol "mephisto's waltz: selected short stories" (2019) will eaves "murmur" (2019)

polarstompf

johan op de beek "het complot van laken" (2019) jon steinhagen "the hanging artist" (2019) juli zeh "empty hearts" (2019) max hertzberg "operation oskar" (2019) + max hertzberg "berlin centre" (2019) peter robinson "many rivers to cross" (2019) tony belloto "bellini & the sphinx" [1995] (2019)

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[meatthawsmoth]

[I]n certain passages in this writing [The Unique and its Property], not only are God, Christ, the Church and religion in general the object of the most disrespectful blasphemy, but the entire social order as well - State and Government are defined as something that should no longer exist, while lying, perjury, murder and suicide are justified, and the right to property is denied.

justification for seizing Stirner’s book immediately after it was published, quoted by Robert Calasso, “Accompagnamento alla lettura di Stirner’

[buon-tempo]

16 marzo 1978 - 16 marzo 2020 Il maestro. Se lo studioso intende raggiungere Juan Rodolfo Wilcock per via enciclopedica, può fare prima una sosta alla voce precedente Wilcker Ulrich, papirologo della Pomerania (1862-1944), oppure accerchiarlo tramite la voce successiva, Wilczek Franz, Nobel statunitense per la Fisica nel 2004, esperto di quanti. Questa semplice mossa definisce lo spirito di Juan Rodolfo Wilcock più di quanto si creda: solo i capricci dell’alfabeto, così simili a quelli del destino, hanno infatti impedito a Wilcock di essere riconosciuto anche come scienziato delle particelle subatomiche e egittologo, ma chiunque conosca la sua opera sa che questo sarebbe stato invece possibile con una certa facilità, peccato. Poeta, scrittore e ingegnere, Wilcock nacque giovanissimo a Buenos Aires nel 1919; sin da subito però iniziò a rivalersi della futura ingiustizia enciclopedica soprattutto in tre modi: 1) pensando all’universo, 2) partecipando alla ricostruzione della ferrovia Transandina 3) diventando amico e sodale di Borges, Bioy Casares e Silvina Ocampo. Nel 1955 poi si trasferì in Italia e iniziò a scrivere e a pubblicare libri, articoli e poesie in italiano meglio di molti italiani a lui contemporanei che scrivevano e pubblicavano libri, articoli e poesie (in italiano). La cosa, ci sembra di poter dire, non lo rese particolarmente popolare nell’ambiente ma, come notò una volta Roberto Calasso, suo amico e editore, “sapeva, come pochi, non dipendere dagli altri e dal mondo”. “La sinagoga degli iconoclasti”; “I due allegri indiani”; “Lo stereoscopio dei solitari”; “Frau Teleprocu”; “Il libro dei mostri”; “Il tempio etrusco”, sono i titoli magnifici di alcuni suoi libri ancora più sorprendenti. Scrisse a lungo per “il Mondo” di Mario Pannunzio; lo fece anche con lo pseudonimo di Matteo Campanari, col quale a volte firmava articoli contro l’altro sé stesso e recensioni di spettacoli teatrali inventati, come quello tratto dalle “Ricerche filosofiche” di Wittgenstein. Tra i molti autori tradotti, Joyce, Flann O’Brien e un libro bellissimo di Norman Douglas sui biglietti da visita. Queste, utilizzando le sue stesse parole, furono invece le sue preferenze letterarie: “Robert Walser e Ronald Firbank e tutti gli autori preferiti da Walser e da Firbank e tutti gli autori che a loro volta costoro preferirono”. Morì il 16 marzo del 1978, nella sua casa di Lubriano nella campagna laziale, nello stesso giorno del sequestro di Aldo Moro. Sulla sua lapide è scolpita una sola parola: “Poeta”.

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Historical reading list

Hello, world. A while ago I made a list of history books to read that would take me chronologically from the Big Bang up to the present. I did it on a Word document and haven’t had time to compile the list on Goodreads, but I wanted to post it here as a stopgap for anyone interested. There’s a penchant towards my own heritage, which comes through the United States and Mormonism, with, for instance, at least one biography on every American President (through Obama). But I tried to be broad because as I read these I want to gain a broad understanding not just of history but of different global cultures today; hence so many titles dealing with religion or mythology in general. There’s a smattering of fiction thrown in there where it fits historically, like The Iliad, Divine Comedy, or Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and I have other reading lists dealing with topics like art, music, religion (outside of history, like books about Buddhism or Joseph Campbell essays), and contemporary work in natural sciences/conservation/mass extinction, so by and large books relating to those things don’t appear here, but I still hope it’s useful. 1.     A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking 

2.     The First Three Minutes, Steven Weinberg

3.     Lives of the Planets: A Natural History of the Solar System, Richard Corfield

4.     From Dust to Life: The Origin and Evolution of Our Solar System, John Chambers & Jacqueline Mitton 

5.     Plate Tectonics, Stephen M. Tomecek

6.     On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin (1859)

7.     The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins

8.     Prehistoric Life: The Definitive Visual History of Life on Earth, Dorling-Kindersley

9.     Prehistoric Life: Evolution and the Fossil Record, Lieberman and Kaesler

10.  Life: An Unauthorized Biography (newest edition), Richard Fortey

11.  The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and our Quest to Understand Earth’s Past Mass Extinctions, Peter Brannen

12.  When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time, Michael Benton

13.  Trilobite!, Richard Fortey

14.  Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods, Danna Staaf

15.  Pterosaurs: Natural History, Evolution, Anatomy, Mark Witton

16.  Dinosaurs: A Concise Natural History, David E. Fastovsky & David B. Weishampel

17.  The Complete Dinosaur (second edition), M.K. Brett-Surman

18.  Tyrannosaurus Rex: The Tyrant King, ed. Peter Larson and Kenneth Carpenter 

19.  Oceans of Kansas: A Natural History of the Western Interior Sea, Michael J. Everhart

20.  The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, Steve Brusatte

21.  All Yesterdays: Unique and Speculative Views of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals, John Conway 

22.  Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds, John Pickrell 

23.  Feathered Dinosaurs: The Origin of Birds, John Long and Peter Schouten

24.  The Origin and Evolution of Mammals, T.S. Kemp

25.  Beasts of Eden: Walking Whales, Dawn Horses, and Other Enigmas of Mammal Evolution, David Rains Wallace 

26.  After the Dinosaurs: The Age of Mammals, Donald R. Prothero

27.  Walking with Beasts: A Prehistoric Safari, Tim Haines 

28.  Cenozoic Mammals of Africa, Lars Werdelin and William Joseph Sanders 

29.  The Ice Age: A Very Short Introduction, Jamie Woodward

30.  Prehistoric America: A Journey through the Ice Age and Beyond, Miles Barton

31.  Twilight of the Mammoths: Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America, Paul S. Martin and Harry W. Greene 

32.  The Descent of Man, Charles Darwin (1871)

33.  Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins, Ian Tattersall 

34.  Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth, Chris Stringer

35.  How to Think Like a Neanderthal, Thomas Wynn & Frederick Coolidge 

36.  The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain, Terrence W. Deacon

37.  The Lost Civilizations of the Stone Age, Richard Rudgley

38.  Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari

39.  The Dancing Universe: From Creation Myths to the Big Bang, Marcelo Gleiser

40.  Primal Myths: Creation Myths Around the World, Barbara Sproul

41.  A History of World Agriculture: From the Neolithic Age to the Current Crisis, Marcel Mazoyer

42.  Across Atlantic Ice: The Origin of America’s Clovis Culture, Dennis Stanford & Bruce Bradley

43.  Ancient Near East: A Very Short Introduction, Amanda H. Podany

44.  The Epic of Gilgamesh (2100 BC)

45.  Abraham: The First Historical Biography, David Rosenberg

46.  A History of Ancient Egypt, Marc Van De Mieroop

47.  Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: The One and the Many, Erik Hornung

48.  The Search for God in Ancient Egypt, Jan Assmann

49.  The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day, tr. Raymond Faulkner

50.  The Mind of Egypt: History and Meaning in the Time of the Pharaohs, Jan Assmann

51.  The Family Haggadah 

52.  The Iliad, Homer (ca. 1180 BC)

53.  The Odyssey, Homer (Fagle translation)

54.  1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed, Eric Cline

55.  Transformations of Myth through Time, Joseph Campbell

56.  The Spirit of Zoroastrianism, Prods Oktor Skjaervo

57.  In Search of Zarathustra: Across Iran and Central Asia to Find the World’s First Prophet, Paul Kriwaczek

58.  Isaiah: Prophet, Seer, and Poet, Victor Ludlow (700 BC) 

59.  Rereading Job, Michael Austin (600 BC)

60.  How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now, James L. Kugel

61.  The Cambridge Companion to the Bible

62.  Illuminating Humor of the Bible, Steve Walker

63.  The Mother of the Lord, vol. 1: The Lady in the Temple, Margaret Barker

64.  The Holy Bible, New International Version

65.  The Art of War, Sun Tzu (500 BC)

66.  The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome, Susan Wise Bauer

67.  The Maya, Michael Coe & Stephen Houston (newest edition)

68.  Blood and Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain, Ronald Hutton

69.  Celtic Myths and Legends, Peter Berresford Ellis

70.  Celtic Gods and Heroes, Marie-Louise Sjoestedt

71.  Did God Have a Wife?: Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel, William Dever 

72.  The Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World, John Boardman

73.  D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths

74.  Mythology, Edith Hamilton 

75.  Bulfinch’s Mythology 

76.  The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Roberto Calasso

77.  Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe: Early Scandinavian and Celtic Religions, H.R. Ellis Davidson

78.  Early Irish Myths and Sagas, Jeffrey Gantz

79.  From Sphinx to Christ: An Occult History, Edouard Schure

80.  Buddha (Penguin Lives Biographies), Karen Armstrong

81.  Buddhacarita, Asvaghosa (ca. 500 BC)

82.  Buddhist Scriptures (ca. 500 BC) 

83.  Ramayana (ca. 500 BC) 

84.  Mahabharata (ca 400 BC)

85.  Ka: Stories of the Mind and Gods of India, Roberto Calasso

86.  Tao Te Ching (ca 400 BC) 

87.  The Zhuangzi (446-221 BC)

88.  Old Myths and New Approaches: Interpreting Ancient Religious Sites in Southeast Asia, Alexandra Haendel

89.  The Rise of Athens: The Story of the World’s Greatest Civilization, Anthony Everitt

90.  Democracy: A Life, Paul Cartledge (ca. 450 BC)

91.  Histories, Herodotus (440 BC)

92.  History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides (410 BC)

93.  Meno, Plato (380 BC)94.  The Republic, Plato (380 BC)

95.  The Symposium, Plato (370 BC)

96.  The Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle (350 BC)

97.  On the Soul (De Anima), Aristotle (350 BC)

98.  Poetics, Aristotle (335 BC)

99.  Alexander the Great, Philip Freeman (ca 330 BC)

100. Letters (to Herodotus, Pythocles, & Menoeceus), Epicurus (ca. 200 BC)

101. Analects of Confucius (ca 200 BC) 

102. Dhammapada (a Buddhist text) (200 BC)

103. The Lotus Sutra (ca 100 BC) 

104. Why Buddhism is True, Robert Wright

105. Cicero: Selected Works (Penguin Classics), Marcus Tullius Cicero (ca 63 BC)

106. Caesar: Life of a Colossus, Adrian Goldsworthy

107. The Conquest of Gaul, Julius Caesar (ca 50 BC)

108. The Aeneid, Virgil (19 BC)

109. Search, Ponder, and Pray: A Guide to the Gospels, Julie M. Smith

110. Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, Reza Aslan

111. How Jesus Became God, Bart Ehrman

112. A History of the Devil, Gerald Messadie

113. Metamorphoses, Ovid (8 AD)

114. The New Complete Works of Josephus, Josephus 

115. A New History of Early Christianity, Charles Freeman

116. The Gnostic Gospels, Elaine Pagels

117. The Nag Hammadi Scriptures: The Revised and Updated Translation of Sacred Gnostic Texts Complete in One Volume, ed. Marvin Meyer

118. A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Karen Armstrong 

119. Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible, William Goetzmann

120. The Twelve Caesars, Suetonius (Penguin Classics tr. James Rives) (ca 140 AD)

121. Meditations, Marcus Aurelius (180 AD)

122. The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians, Peter Heather

123. Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, Peter Brown

124. The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World, Bart Ehrman 

125. The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World, Catherine Nixey 

126. A History of Christianity, Diarmaid MacCulloch

127. Everyman’s Talmud (ca. 200) 

128. Confessions, St. Augustine (397)

129. The Illustrated World Encyclopedia of Saints

130. The Silk Road in World History, Xinru Liu

131. Attila: The Barbarian King Who Challenged Rome, John Man (400s)

132. The Consolation of Philosophy, Ancius Boethius (524)

133. One Thousand and One Nights (ca 600)

134. The Civilization of the Middle Ages: A Completely Revised and Expanded Edition of Medieval History, Norman F. Cantor

135. Romance of the Grail: The Magic and Mystery of Arthurian Myth, Joseph Campbell ed. Evans Lansing Smith

136. Le Morte d’Arthur, Thomas Malory (1485)

137. The Making of the Middle Ages, R.W. Southern

138. Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages, Jack Hartnell

139. The Age of the Vikings, Anders Winroth

140. The Sea Wolves: A History of the Vikings, Lars Brownworth

141. The Viking Spirit: An Introduction to Norse Mythology and Religion, Daniel McCoy

142. Gods and Myths of Northern Europe, H.R. Elllis Davidson

143. Norwegian Folklore, Zinken Hopp 

144. Holy Misogyny: Why Sex and Gender Conflicts in the Early Church Still Matter, April DeConick

145. Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World through Islamic Eyes, Tamim Ansary (610…)

146. Islam: A Short History, Karen Armstrong

147. The Holy Qur’an

148. Mohammed and Charlemagne, Henri Pirenne (700s)

149. Beowulf (Heaney translation) (by 900s)

150. A History of the English Speaking Peoples, vol. 1: The Birth of Britain, Winston Churchill

151. The Tale of Genji, Lady Murasaki Shikibu (1000s) 

152. The Sagas of Icelanders (1000) 

153. Eleanor of Aquitaine: By the Wrath of God, Queen of England, Alison Weir (1100s)

154. Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales, ed. Stephen Knight & Thomas Ohlgren

155. Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography, Stephen Thomas Knight

156. Book of Divine Works, Hildegard von Bingen (1163) 

157. The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition, C.S. Lewis

158. Money: The Unauthorized Biography: From Coinage to Cryptocurrencies, Felix Martin

159.Genghis Khan: Life, Death, and Resurrection, John Man (ca. 1200)

160. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, Jack Weatherford

161. The Secret History of the Mongol Queens, Jack Weatherford

162. Kublai Khan: The Mongol King Who Remade China, John Man

163. St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Francis of Assisi, ed. G.K. Chesterton (1200s)

164. St. Francis of Assisi, Omer Englebert 

165. The Poetic Edda (1200s) 

166. The Prose Edda, Snorri Sturluson (1200s) 

167. The Saga of the Volsungs, Jesse L. Byock (late 1200s) 

168. The Travels of Marco Polo, Marco Polo (1200s)

169. Revelations of Divine Love, Julian of Norwich (1300s) 

170. Outlaws of the Marsh, Shi Nai’an (1300s) 

171. Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Luo Guanzhong (1300s) 

172. Robert the Bruce: King of Scots, Ronald McNair Scott (early 1300s)

173. The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri (1320) 

174. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, Barbara Tuchman   

175. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, Jared M. Diamond

176. Marriage: A History, Stephanie Coontz

177.  The Future of Marriage, David Blankenhorn

178. The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer (1400) 

179. The Civilizing Process, Norbert Elias  

180. The Samurai: A Military History, Stephen Turnbull 

181. 1421: The Year China Discovered America, Gavin Menzies

182. The Hundred Years War: The English in France 1337-1453, Desmond Seward 

183. Joan of Arc: In Her Own Words (early 1400s)

184. History of Creativity in the Arts, Science, and Technology: Pre-1500, Brent Strong

185. The Illustrated History of the Sikhs, Khushwant Singh (late 1400s)

186. The Aztec, Man and Tribe (1400s-1521) 

187. The Aztecs, Michael E. Smith

188. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, Charles Mann

189. 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created, Charles Mann 

190. Conquistador Voices, Volume 1, Kevin H. Siepel

191. Conquistador Voices, Volume 2, Kevin H. Siepel

192.  In the Hands of the Great Spirit, John Page

193. Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance, Lisa Jardine

194. The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, Jacob Burckhardt

195. The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall, Christopher Hibbert 

196. The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli (1513)

197.  Leonardo da Vinci, Walter Isaacson

198. Utopia, Thomas More (1516)

199. She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth, Helen Castor

200. The Reformation: A History, Diarmaid MacCulloch

201. Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World, Eric Metaxas

202. The Discoverers: A History of Man’s Search to Know His World and Himself, Daniel J. Boorstin

203. Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays (Penguin Classics), ed. M.A. Screech

204. Spice: The History of a Temptation, Jack Turner 

205. The Age of Exploration: From Christopher Columbus to Ferdinand Magellan, Kenneth Pletcher

206. Journey to the West, Wu Cheng’en (1500s) 

207. How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City, Joan DeJean

208. A History of the English Speaking Peoples, vol. 2: The New World, Winston Churchill

209. The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870, Hugh Thomas

210. The Life of Elizabeth I, Alison Weir

211. The Faerie Queen, Edmund Spenser (1590)

212. The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street, Charles Nicholl

213. A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599, James Shapiro 

214. London: The Biography, Peter Ackroyd 

215. Galileo: Watcher of the Skies, David Wootton

216. Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War, Nathaniel Philbrick (1620)

217. Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America, David Hackett Fischer 

218. Art and Commerce in the Dutch Golden Age, Michael North  

219. Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, Edwin G. Burrows & Mike Wallace

220. The Thirty Years War: Europe’s Tragedy, Peter H. Wilson 

221. Coming of Age in the Milky Way, Timothy Ferris

222. The Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes (1651)

223. Ethics, Benedict de Spinoza (1665)

224. The Scourge of Demons: Possession, Lust, and Witchcraft in a 17th-century Italian Convent, Jeffrey Watt 

225. The Great Fire of London, Neil Hanson (1666)

226. Paradise Lost (1667) 

227. The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678) 

228. The Diary of Samuel Pepys (Modern Library Classics), Samuel Pepys ed. Richard Le Gallienne (late 1600s)

229. The Scientific Revolution, Stephen Shapin

230. The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution, David Wootton 

231. Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton, Richard Westfall (1642-1726)

232. A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson

233. Ways of Knowing: A New History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, John Pickstone

234. Two Treatises on Government, John Locke (1689)   

235. The Penguin Book of Witches (1692)

236. In the Devil’s Snare, Mary Beth Norton (1692)

237. Memoirs of Duc de Saint-Simon, 1691-1709: Presented to the King, Duc de Saint-Simon 

238. Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift (1726) (and A Modest Proposal)

239. The Major Works (Oxford World’s Classics), Alexander Pope (early 1700s)

240. China: A History, John Keay

241. The Dream of the Red Chamber, Cao Xueqin (1700s) 

242. Strange Tales from the Liaozhai Studio vol. 1 (1740) 

243. Strange Tales from the Liaozhai Studio vol. 2

244. Strange Tales from the Liaozhai Studio vol. 3 

245. The Story of Music: From Babylon to the Beatles, Howard Goodall

246. Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, Christoph Wolff (early 1700s)

247. A History of the English Speaking Peoples, vol. 3: The Age of Revolution, Winston Churchill 

248. The Rise and Fall of the British Empire, Lawrence James 

249. The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Adam Smith (1759)

250. Candide, Voltaire (1759) 

251. Treasury of North American Folk Tales, Catherine Peck

252. Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766, Fred Anderson

253. Benjamin Franklin, Edmund S. Morgan

254. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

255. Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman, Robert Massie

256. A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn

257. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith (1776)

258. Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius, Sylvia Nasar

259. Common Sense, Thomas Paine (1776)

260. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, Bernard Bailyn 

261. The Radicalism of the American Revolution, Gordon S. Wood

262. 1776, David McCullough

263. The Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson

264. History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution, Mercy Otis Warren

265. Washington’s Crossing, David Hackett Fischer

266. George Washington, A Life, Willard Sterne Randall

267. The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787, Gordon S. Wood

268. Washington: A Life, Ron Chernow

269. The Grand Idea: George Washington’s Potomac and the Race to the West, Joel Achenbach

270. His Excellency: George Washington, Joseph J. Ellis

271. James Wilson: Founding Father, 1742-1798, Charles Page Smith

272. The Constitution and Bill of Rights, James Madison

273. The Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1788)

274. The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government, Fergus Bordewich

275. Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution, Jack Rakove

276. Constitutional Law: Principles and Policies, Erwin Chemerinsky

277. That’s Not What They Meant, Michael Austin

278. The Second Amendment: A Biography, Michael Waldman

279. That’s Not What They Meant About Guns, Michael Austin

280. Taming the Electoral College, Robert Bennett

281. Why the Electoral College is Bad for America, George C. Edwards 

282. Faust, Goethe (1790)

283. The Ancien Regime and the Revolution, Alexis de Tocqueville

284. Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, Simon Schama

285. The Rights of Man, Thomas Paine (1791)

286. A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Mary Wollstonecraft (1792)

287. A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

288. A History of Japan: Revised Edition, R.H.P. Mason

289. John Adams, David McCullough

290.  Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams, Joseph J. Ellis

291. The Scramble for Africa, Thomas Pakenham

292. Alexander Hamilton, Ron Chernow 

293. Alexander Hamilton: The Formative Years, Michael Newton

294. Alexander Hamilton: Writings (plus Farmer Refuted, Washington’s farewell address, & the Reynolds Pamphlet)

295. The Age of Reason, Thomas Paine (1804) 

296. Jefferson and His Time, Dumas Malone

297. Thomas Jefferson, Willard Sterne Randall

298. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, Jon Meacham

299. American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson, Joseph J. Ellis

300. Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination, Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter Onuf

301. Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson, Paul Finkelman

302. The Founding Foodies: How Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin Revolutionized American Cuisine, Dave DeWitt

303. The Journals of Lewis and Clark, Lewis and Clark (1806)

304. The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World, Andrea Wulf 

305. A History of the English Speaking Peoples, vol. 4: The Great Democracies, Winston Churchill 

306. The Cambridge Illustrated History of France, Colin Jones

307. France, a History: From Gaul to De Gaulle, John Julius Norwich

308. Napoleon: A Life, Andrew Roberts

309. The Brothers Grimm (1812) 

310. James Madison and the Creation of the American Republic, Jack Rakove

311. James Madison: A Biography, Ralph Ketchem

312. The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies, Alan Taylor

313. The Naval War of 1812, Theodore Roosevelt

314. Bolivar: American Liberator, Marie Arana (ca. 1810s)

315. The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation’s Call to Greatness, Harlow Giles Unger

316. The Monroe Doctrine: Empire and Nation in Nineteenth-Century America, Jay Sexton

317. The English and their History, Robert Tombs

318. An Insider’s View of Mormon Origins, Grant Palmer 

319. Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, D. Michael Quinn

320. Standing Apart: Mormon Historical Consciousness and the Concept of Apostasy, Miranda Wilcox & John Young

321. Nation Builder: John Quincy Adams and the Grand Strategy of the Republic, Charles Edel

322. John Quincy Adams: American Visionary, Fred Kaplan

323. John Quincy Adams, Robert V. Remini

324. Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, Richard Bushman 

325. Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith, Linda King Newell and Valeen Tippetts Avery

326. By the Hand of Mormon: The American Scripture that Launched a New World Religion, Terryl Givens 

327. Understanding the Book of Mormon, Grant Hardy

328. The Book of Mormon: Revised Authorized Version 

329. The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, D. Michael Quinn

330. Banishing the Cross: The Emergence of a Mormon Taboo, Michael G. Reed

331. This Is My Doctrine: The Development of Mormon Theology, Charles Harrell

332. The Refiner’s Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, John L. Brooke

333. A Comprehensive History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints vol. 1, B.H. Roberts

334. Garibaldi: Invention of a Hero, Lucy Riall (1834 revolt)

335. Road to the Sea, Florence Dorsey 

336. Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times, H.W. Brands

337. American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, Jon Meacham

338. Jacksonland, Steve Inskeep

339. Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville (1835)

340. Martin Van Buren: The Romantic Age of American Politics, John Niven

341. The Voyage of the Beagle, Charles Darwin (1839)

342. Incarnations: A History of India in Fifty Lives, Sunil Khilnani

343. Old Tippecanoe: William Henry Harrison and His Times, Freeman Cleaves

344. John Tyler: Champion of the Old South, Oliver P. Chitwood

345. Self-Reliance and Other Essays, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841)

346. Fear and Trembling, Soren Kierkegaard (1843) 

347. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845)

348. Woman in the Nineteenth Century, Margaret Fuller (1845)

349. What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, Daniel Walker Howe

350. Nightfall at Nauvoo, Samuel W. Taylor 

351. A Comprehensive History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints vol. 2, B.H. Roberts

352. Journey to Zion: Voices from the Mormon Trail, Carol Cornwall Madsen

353. 111 Days to Zion, Hal Knight 

354. The Gathering of Zion, Wallace Stegner 

355. A Comprehensive History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints vol. 3, B.H. Roberts

356. The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants on the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-60, John D. Unruh

357. So Far from God: The U.S. War with Mexico, 1846-1848, John S. D. Eisenhower

358. The Oregon Trail, Francis Parkman (1849)

359. The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream, H.W. Brands 

360. Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau (1849)

361. The American Transcendentalists 

362. The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America (James Polk), Walter Borneman

363. Fire and Blood: A History of Mexico, T.R. Fehrenbach

364. Zachary Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest, K. Jack Bauer

365. The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War, Andrew Delbanco

366. Millard Fillmore: Biography of a President, Robert J. Rayback 

367. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852) 

368. Walden, Henry David Thoreau (1854) 

369. Franklin Pierce, Michael Holt

370. President James Buchanan: A Biography, Philip S. Klein

371. Parley P. Pratt: The Apostle Paul of Mormonism, Terryl Givens 

372. A Comprehensive History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints vol. 4, B.H. Roberts

373. American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857, Sally Denton

374. America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink, Kenneth Stampp

375. The West Indies and the Spanish Main, Anthony Trollope (1860)  

376. Charles Darwin: The Power of Place, Janet Browne

377. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, James McPherson

378. Centennial History of the Civil War, vol. 1: The Coming Fury, Bruce Catton

379. Centennial History of the Civil War, vol. 2: Terrible Swift Sword, Bruce Catton

380. Centennial History of the Civil War, vol. 3: Never Call Retreat, Bruce Catton

381. Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer, Fred Kaplan

382. The Eloquent President: A Portrait of Lincoln through his Words, Ronald White

383. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln

384. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, Doris Kearns Goodwin

385. Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South, Stephanie McCurry 

386. The South vs. the South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War, William Freehling

387. Andersen’s Fairy Tales, Hans Christian Andersen 

388. Matthew Brady’s Illustrated History of the Civil War

389. With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Oates

390. A Short History of Canada (6th ed), Desmond Morton 

391. Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years, Carl Sandburg

392. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War, Drew Gilpin Faust

393. Abraham Lincoln, Lord Charnwood  

394. Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China, Jung Chang

395. Andrew Johnson, Annette Gordon-Reed

396. Biographical Supplement and Index, Harriet Sigerman 

397. Mormon Sisters: Women in Early Utah, Claudia Bushman

398. Development of LDS Temple Worship, Devery Anderson

399. The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz 

400. Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet, John C. Turner

401. Great Basin Kingdom: An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900, Leonard Arrington 

402. A Comprehensive History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints vol. 5, B.H. Roberts

403. Grant, Ron Chernow

404. Grant: A Biography, William S. McFeeley

405. American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant, Ronald C. White

406. Complete Personal Memoirs, Ulysses S. Grant 

407. Capital (Das Kapital), Karl Marx (first edition 1867, third 1894)

408. The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America, Louis Menand

409. Black Reconstruction, W.E.B. Du Bois

410. Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, updated edition, Eric Foner

411. A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration, Steven Hahn

412. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown

413. Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America, T.J. Stiles

414. Rutherford B. Hayes, Hans Trefousse

415. Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche

416. Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future, Friedrich Nietzsche

417. Assassination Vacation (James Garfield), Sarah Vowell

418. Destiny of the Republic (James Garfield), Candice Millard 

419. Gentleman Boss: The Life of Chester Alan Arthur, Thomas C. Reeves

420. King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa, Adam Hochschild 

421. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Walter Rodney  

422. More Wives Than One: Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840-1910, Kathryn M. Daynes 

423. The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy, Carol Lynn Pearson

424. Selected Writings, José Martí (Penguin Classics)

425. Dawn of the Belle Epoque, Mary McAuliffe

426. Grover Cleveland: A Study in Character, Henry F. Graff

427. Manning Clark’s History of Australia: Abridged from the Six-Volume Classic, Manning Clark

428. The Making of Modern Ireland, 1603-1923, J.C. Beckett 

429. Benjamin Harrison, Charles W. Calhoun

430. How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York, Jacob Riis (1890)

431. Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919, Mike Wallace 

432. The History of Spain, Peter Pierson

433. Presidency of William McKinley, Lewis L. Gould

434. The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. Du Bois

435. Theodore Rex, Edmund Morris

436. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Morris

437. Mornings on Horseback (Theodore Roosevelt), David McCullough

438. Marie Curie: A Life, Susan Quinn

439. The Shame of the Cities, Lincoln Steffens (1904)

440. Albert Einstein: A Biography, Albrecht Folsing 

441. Relativity: The Special and General Theory, Albert Einstein (1905)

442. The Jungle, Upton Sinclair (1906)

443. The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism, Doris Kearns Goodwin 

444. The Life & Times of William Howard Taft, Harry F. Pringle

445. The Power and Independence of the Federal Reserve, Peter Conti-Brown 

446. Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism, Bhu Srinivasan

447. The War that Ended Peace: The Road to 1914, Margaret MacMillan

448. July 1914: Countdown to War, Sean McMeekin 

449. The Guns of August, Barbara Tuchman  

450. A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918, G.J. Meyer 

451. Pandemic 1918: Eyewitness Accounts from the Greatest Medical Holocaust in Modern History, Catharine Arnold

452. Woodrow Wilson: A Biography, John Milton Cooper

453. Women and the Vote: A World History, Jad Adams

454. Rise Up Women!: The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes, Diane Atkinson

455. The Shadow of Blooming Grove: Warren G. Harding in His Times, Francis Russell

456. A History of Russia (new edition w Mark Steinberg), Nicholas V. Riasanovsky

457. The Flight of the Romanovs: A Family Saga, John Curtis Perry and Constantine V. Pleshakov

458. Ten Days that Shook the World, John Reed

459.  Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo,” Zora Neale Hurston

460. Coolidge: An American Enigma, Robert Sobel

461. Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties, Lucy Moore 

462. Herbert Hoover, William Leuchtenburg

463. A Comprehensive History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints vol. 6, B.H. Roberts

464. Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, Liaquat Ahamed

465. Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, David Kennedy

466. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Walker Evans and James Agee

467. Black Elk Speaks, Black Elk

468. Franklin D. Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom, Conrad Black

469. FDR, Jean Edward Smith

470. The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life and Legacy of Frances Perkins, Kirstin Downey

471. Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope, Jonathan Alte

472.  Eleanor Roosevelt: Vol. 1, The Early Years, 1884-1933, Blanche Wiesen Cook

473. Eleanor Roosevelt: Vol. 2, The Defining Years, 1933-1938, Blanche Wiesen Cook

474. Eleanor Roosevelt: Vol. 3, The War Years and After, 1939-1962, Blanche Wiesen Cook

475. No Ordinary Time (FDR), Doris Kearns Goodwin

476. Alan Turing: The Enigma, Andrew Hodges

477. The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War, Andrew Roberts

478. Bloodlands, Timothy Snyder 

479. Leningrad, Anna Reid

480. A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary

481. Churchill: Walking with Destiny, Andrew Roberts 

482. Memoirs of the Second World War, Winston Churchill 

483. The Destruction of the European Jews, Raul Hilberg

484. The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank

485. Night, Elie Wiesel

486. Hiroshima, John Hersey

487. Nuremberg Trials: The Nazis and Their Crimes Against Humanity, Paul Roland 

488. Truman, David McCullough

489. Gandhi: An Autobiography, Mahatma Gandhi

490. The Life of Mahatma Gandhi, Louis Fischer 

491. The Arabs: A History, Eugene Rogan 

492. Mao: The Unknown Story, Jung Chang and Jon Halliday

493. Inside Red China, Helen Foster Snow

494. Red Star Over China, Edgar Snow

495. The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War, David Halberstam

496. An American Childhood, Annie Dillard 

497. Eisenhower in War and Peace, Jean Edward Smith

498. The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA, James D. Watson (1953)

499. Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA, Brenda Maddox 

500. Mississippi Trial, 1955, Chris Crowe 

501. Sake & Satori: Asian Journals, Joseph Campbell

502. A Concise History of Germany, Mary Fulbrook

503. The Mormon Hierarchy: Wealth and Corporate Power, D. Michael Quinn

504. Lost Legacy: The Mormon Office of Presiding Patriarch, Irene Bates

505. The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan (1963)

506. A Thousand Days (JFK), Arthur M. Schlesinger

507. An Unfinished Life (JFK), Robert Dallek

508. A History of Modern Africa: 1800 to the Present, 2nd ed., Richard J. Reid

509. The Years of Lyndon Johnson, vol. 1: The Path to Power, Robert Caro

510. The Years of Lyndon Johnson, vol. 2: Means of Ascent, Robert Caro

511. The Years of Lyndon Johnson, vol. 3: Master of the Senate, Robert Caro

512. The Years of Lyndon Johnson, vol. 4: The Passage of Power, Robert Caro

513. The Years of Lyndon Johnson, vol. 5: untitled/unreleased, Robert Caro

514. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63, Taylor Branch

515. Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65, Taylor Branch

516. At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68, Taylor Branch

517. The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X & Alex Haley 

518. The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin

519. Lakota Woman, Mary Crow Dog

520. The Bomb: A New History, Stephen Younger  

521. This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age, William Burrows 

522. A History of the Modern Middle East, 5th ed., William Cleveland

523. Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi, Katherine Frank 

524. Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam, Fredrik Logevall 

525. The Best and the Brightest, David Halberstam

526. Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam, Gordon Goldstein

527. To Destroy You Is No Loss: The Odyssey of a Cambodian Family, JoAn D. Criddle

528. All the President’s Men, Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward

529. Nixonland, Richard Perlstein 

530. The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics, Bruce Schulman

531. Gerald R. Ford, Douglas Brinkley

532. Pedestals and Podiums: Utah Women, Religious Authority, and Equal Rights, Martha Bradley 

533. Petals of Blood, Nugi wa Thiong’o (1977 Kenyan novel)

534. Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

535. Spear of the Nation: South Africa’s Liberation Army, Janet Cherry

536. Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa, Antjie Krog

537. Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter, Randall Balmer

538. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, Robert A. Caro 

539. President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime, Lou Cannon

540. 1983: The World at the Brink, Taylor Downing

541. A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End, Peter Kenez

542. Lost Lives (the Troubles), David McKittrick, Seamus Kelters, Brian Feeley, and Chris Thornton 

543. Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America, Juan Gonzalez 

544. As Texas Goes: How the Lone Star State Hijacked the American Agenda, Gail Collins

545. Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, Jon Meacham

546. First in His Class (Bill Clinton), David Maraniss

547. Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace, Gore Vidal (2002) 

548. Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 11, 2001, Steve Coll

549. Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House, Peter Baker 

550. Monument Wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape, Kirk Savage

551. The Formations of Modernity, Stuart Hall & Bram Gieben

552. Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress – and a Plan to Stop It, Lawrence Lessig (he wrote a sequel, same title with “2.0” in 2015) 

553. All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis, Bethany McLean

554. Back to Work, Bill Clinton

555. Beyond Outrage: What Has Gone Wrong with our Economy and our Democracy and How to Fix It, Robert Reich 

556. A Governor’s Story, Jennifer Granholm

557.  Life, Inc.: How Corporatism Conquered the World and How We Can Take It Back, Douglas Rushkoff

558. Dreams from my Father, Barack Obama

559. Barack Obama: The Story, David Maraniss

560. The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama, David Remnick

561. Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President (Obama), Ron Suskind

562. Obama’s Wars, Bob Woodward

563. Hard Choices: A Memoir, Hillary Clinton

564. The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama

565. The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency, Chris Whipple

566. Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates 

567. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present, David Treuer

568. DNA: The Story of the Genetic Revolution, James D. Watson 

569. Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China, Evan Osnos

570. Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age, Larry Bartels

571. The Post-American World: Release 2.0, Fareed Zakaria

572. What Happened, Hillary Clinton 

573. THE NOT YET WRITTEN DEFINITIVE ACCOUNT OF THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S SCANDALS

574. How Democracies Die, Steve Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt

575. The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels, Jon Meacham

576. America: The Farewell Tour, Chris Hedges

577. A Call to Action, Jimmy Carter

578. I Am Malala, Malala Yousafzai

579. A Path Appears, Nicholas Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn

580. The History of Creativity in the Arts, Science, and Technology: 1500-Present, Brent Strong 

581. Brief Answers to the Big Questions, Stephen Hawking  

[morubh]

ACT 3: THE STAGE

> Inside the hall

> 11:59 pm

> Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul enter the stage

 //

 Nowhere to go

No stage to run to

Finally home

Confined, confronted

Could go both ways [1]

This is it.

You cannot now hold the world in darkness. [2]

The heavy curtain peels away.

My Body my Home, fuck their opinions.

Hi, my name is Charlotte Adigéry

First of all, I would like you to thank yourself for taking a time-out. [3]

For coming here to experience with us a truly unique moment in time. Welcome home.

Sweat runs down my face, mixes with makeup, mixes with fearful anticipation. Fear dissolves into excitement.

I look towards him. Standing on the other end of the stage.

His arms raised like the conductor of an orchestra [ ...] violent rhythms succeed a graceful andante. [4]

An art as fragile and evanescent as perfume, fluid empiricism, transitory, forgotten, misunderstood philosophies [5]

I raise my voice towards the crowd. Sharp synthesizers are chased by light-footed rhythms.

Voices make noise, so do things. [6]

The whole building vibrates with animation. Draws energy from the movement of the masses.

An automaton thinking it had free will! [7]

Madness here took its face from the mask of the beast. [8]

Lyrical anecdotes […] allow everyone at the club to dance away the weight of their own traumas. [9]

Their facades fall. Their fear evaporates.

They could drop the nameless resentment, the sense of insecurity which […] aroused in most people. [10]

It is the excess of joy. [11]

Happy are the melted bodies. [12]

However, there is destruction in every creative act. This is the pinnacle.

Now I have become death, the destroyer of worlds. [13]

The goddess was always ready to draw her bow. [14]

For her joyous benefit she is erogenous; she is the erotogeneity of the heterogeneous: airborne swimmer, in flight, she does not cling to herself; she is dispersible, prodigious, stunning, desirous and capable of others, of the other woman that she will be, of the other woman she isn’t, of him, of you. [15]

Embracing myself is the most attractive thing to be. [16]

I proudly wear my alter egos. Strip away my persona, only to reveal another and another. At last, I stand naked, as a woman. As the becoming mother I am.

Bear with me and I’ll stand bare before you [17]

Breathe in for 1, 2, 3, 4

Hold

Release [18]

If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once in the sky, that would be the splendor of the mighty One. [19]

What came first, the chicken or the egg? [20]

I scream.

Accepting nothing ready-made, nothing already in existence. [21]

I scream.

It Hit Me. [22]

I scream.

Silence.

interrupted by a baby cry. [23]

The ages of life make themselves independent. [24]

A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. [25]

There flowed in her veins some of the blood of the bohemian and the adventuress who runs barefoot. [26]

When the child was born, she laid him on a bed of munja grass. I speak my final words. [27]

Creative culture is this fragile child expiring among us, a new born in the throes of death ever since the world began. [28]

Applause disrupts the infinite pause.

Everything now suggests that at last I shall be able to find a firmer sense of purpose within me and that I can rely on. [29]

I inhale, gratefully.

I’m finally whole. [30]

The curtain falls.

//

1 Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul, Bear With Me (and I’ll stand bare before you)

2 Wollstonecraft, The Vindications The Rights of Men and The Rights of Woman

3 Yin Yang Self-Meditation

4 Hays, Architecture Theory since 1968

5 Serres, The Five Senses

6 Serres, The Five Senses

7 Hofstadter, Godel Escher Bach

8 Foucault, History of Madness

9 Serres, The Five Senses

10 Rand, The Fountainhead

11 Goldoni, The Comedies of Carlo Goldoni

12 Serres, The Five Senses

13 J. Robert Oppenheimer quoting the Bhagavad Gita

14 Calasso, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony

15 Cixous, The Laugh of the Medusa

16 Yin Yang Self-Meditation

17 Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul, Bear With Me (and I’ll stand bare before you)

18 Yin Yang Self-Meditation

19 J. Robert Oppenheimer quoting the Bhagavad Gita

20 Kayleigh Watson, Belgian electro-pop duo Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul on the power of humour and friendship

21 Calasso, Ka Stories of the Mind and Gods of India

22 Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul, It Hit Me

23 Kayleigh Watson, Belgian electro-pop duo Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul on the power of humour and friendship

24 Serres, The Incandescent

25 J. Robert Oppenheimer about witnessing the Trinity Test

26 Hugo, Les Miserables

27 Calasso, Ardor

28 Serres, Troubadour of Knowledge

29 Harrison Wood Gaiger, Art in Theory 1648 1815

30 Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul, Bear With Me (and I’ll stand bare before you)

[quoteoftheweekblog]

QUOTE OF THE WEEK 27/12/21 - JANE GARDAM (AND RIP 2021)

‘They were just passing Stonehenge.’ (Gardam, 2011, p.201).

REFERENCE

Gardam, J. (2011 [2009] ) ‘The man in the wooden hat’. London: Abacus.

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ON THE 21ST GETTING READY FOR THE WINTER SOLSTICE

BUT ALWAYS A WAY

***** ALL SEASONS

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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2022

HERE WE GO AGAIN

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THESE ARE THE WRITERS WE LOST IN 2021 

APOLOGIES FOR NOT BEING ABLE TO KEEP UP WITH THEM - TOO MUCH GOODBYE EUROPE 

3/1/21 - ERIC JEROME DICKEY - AUTHOR

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/books/eric-jerome-dickey-dead.html

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/643836730877853696/quote-of-the-week-22221-eric-jerome-dickey

8/1/21 - KATHARINE WHITEHORN - JOURNALIST AND AUTHOR

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jan/10/katharine-whitehorn-obituary

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/649446514654101504/quote-of-the-week-26421-katharine-whitehorn

8/3/21 - NORTON JUSTER - CHILDREN’S AUTHOR AND ARCHITECT

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/mar/11/norton-juster-obituary

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/653958478285733888/quote-of-the-week-14621-norton-juster

25/3/21 - LARRY McMURTY - AUTHOR

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/mar/31/larry-mcmurtry-obituary

25/3/21 - BEVERLEY CLEARY  - CHILDREN’S AUTHOR

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/apr/05/beverly-cleary-obituary

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/660867695241248768/quote-of-the-week-30821-beverly-cleary-summer

23/5/21 - ERIC CARLE - CHILDREN’S AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/656511133090480128/quote-of-the-week-12721-louise-rennison-and

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/may/27/eric-carle-obituary

9/6/21 - EDWARD DE BONO - AUTHOR, DOCTOR AND CONSULTANT

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jun/10/edward-de-bono-obituary

11/6/21 - LUCINDER RILEY - AUTHOR AND ACTOR

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jun/23/lucinda-riley-obituary

20/6/21 - ISLAR DEWAR - AUTHOR

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jul/26/isla-dewar-obituary

21/7/21 - SIAN JAMES - AUTHOR

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/aug/09/sian-james-obituary

27/7/21 - MO HAYDER - AUTHOR

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/aug/02/mo-hayder-obituary-clare-dunkel

28/7/21 - ROBERTO CALASSO - AUTHOR AND PUBLISHER

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jul/30/roberto-calasso-obituary

18/8/21 - JILL MURPHY - CHILDREN’S AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/aug/22/jill-murphy-obituary

22/8/21 - GRANGE CALVERLEY - CHILDREN’S AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/aug/27/grange-calveley-obituary

31/8/21 - ROBERT RICHARDSON - AUTHOR

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/oct/06/robert-richardson-obituary

20/10/21 - JERRY PINKNEY - CHILDREN’S ILLUSTRATOR

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/nov/05/jerry-pinkney-obituary

13/11/21 - WILBUR SMITH - AUTHOR

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/nov/14/wilbur-smith-obituary

11/12/21 - ANNE RICE - AUTHOR

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/dec/15/anne-rice-obituary

15/12/21 - BELL HOOKS - AUTHOR AND CULTURAL THEORIST

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/17/bell-hooks-obituary

23/12/21 - JOAN DIDION - AUTHOR AND ESSAYIST

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/dec/23/joan-didion-obituary

RIP

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PLUS

TO MY FRIEND FOR THE FLOWERS FOR MY MUM

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ONLY 25 INCHES TO GO

NOT AS MUCH PROGRESS THIS WEEK BUT I DID TWO MORE OF THE FLEECE VERSIONS

ARE WE RELATED OR ARE WE RELATED?

SORRY SAM YOURS ISN’T READY YET SO YOUR FAVOURITE NEW YEAR SONG

‘NEW YEAR’S DAY’ - LIVE IN CHICAGO (WITH FANS) 2018

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=atzlNRwnTWo&feature=youtu.be

VIDEO

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PLAY IT AGAIN SAM FOR MORE TAYLOR EXTRAS

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/670374735365931008/quote-of-the-week-131221-baroness-orczy

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/668409540090478593/quote-of-the-week-221121-bolu-babalola

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/667226586275364864/quote-of-the-week-81121-pd-james

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/666636747020632064/httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv-3skk0ithtpa-video

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/666017409088503808/quote-of-the-week-251021-anne-tyler-happy

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/665384729688866816/quote-of-the-week-181121-orhan-pamuk-i

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/664757761140244480/httpsenwikipediaorgwikile%C3%AFlaslimani-quote

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/664119007964708864/quote-of-the-week-41021-roxane-gay-every-day

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/655873944561287168/quote-of-the-week-5721-milan-kundera

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/652677832837939200/quote-of-the-week-31521-christy-lefteri-have

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/651436799241142272/quote-of-the-week-17521-anita-brookner

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/648903215189049344/quote-of-the-week-19421-john-le-carre

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/638847451166621696/quote-of-the-week-281220-robert-harris-are

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/638124844568936448/quote-of-the-week-211220-charles-dickens-a

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/637484837713969152/quote-of-the-week-141220-charles-dickens

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/636878179558113280/quote-of-the-week-71220-charles-dickens

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/635030849800241152/quote-of-the-week-161120-bernadine-evaristo

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FOR BOOK GROUP 2021

JANUARY - JOANNA CANNON - ‘THE PROBLEM WITH GOATS AND SHEEP’

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/642569603548135424/8221-joanne-cannon-sometimes-people-need

FEBRUARY - HARRIET EVANS - ‘THE GARDEN OF LOST AND FOUND’

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/645733814923034624/quote-of-the-week-15321-harriet-evans

(SORRY I READ THESE TWO IN THE WRONG ORDER)

MARCH - JOHN LE CARRE - ‘AGENT RUNNING IN THE FIELD’

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/648903215189049344/quote-of-the-week-19421-john-le-carre

APRIL - ANITA BROOKNER - ‘STRANGERS’

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/651436799241142272/quote-of-the-week-17521-anita-brookner

MAY - WILLIAM TREVOR - ‘LOVE AND SUMMER’

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/653256412722495488/quote-of-the-week-7621-william-trevor-reading

JUNE - IRENE NEMIROVSKY - 'ALL OUR WORLDLY GOODS’

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/656974240244973568/quote-of-the-week-19721-irene-nemirovsky

JULY - NICHOLAS SHAKESPEARE - 'INHERITANCE’ (SHOULD HAVE BEEN ‘SONGS OF THE SEA’)

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/659682923439587328/quote-of-the-week-16821-nicholas-shakespeare

AUGUST - ZOE HELLER - 'THE BELIEVERS’

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/663326135312105472/quote-of-the-week-20921-zoe-heller-have

SEPTEMBER - ORHAN PAMUK - ‘THE RED-HAIRED WOMAN’ (OR ‘THE MUSEUM OF INNOCENCE’)

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/665384729688866816/quote-of-the-week-181121-ohran-pamuk-i

OCTOBER - P.D. JAMES - ‘THE SKULL BENEATH THE SKIN’ (SHOULD HAVE BEEN ‘THE PRIVATE PATIENT’)

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/667226586275364864/quote-of-the-week-81121-pd-james

NOVEMBER - JANE GARDAM - ‘THE MAN WITH THE WOODEN HAT’

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/671743225361465344/quote-of-the-week-271221-jane-gardam-and-rip

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AND THIS IS WHAT WE READ EARLIER

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/bookgroup

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JANE GARDAM

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/190105212034/quote-of-the-week-6120-jane-gardam-a

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QUOTE OF THE WEEK 2011 - 2021

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/references

FROM THE ARCHIVE

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/654615375636463616/quote-of-the-week-21621-elizabeth-beresford

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[rideretremando]

Roberto Calasso nel 1979