Academics
I managed to read 65 books this year. As an end-of-year victory lap, here's a few highlights, and a couple of suggested personal curricula. My full reading list for the year is all the way at the bottom, if you're here for that for some reason.
Academics
Fate sits at the heart of the Nordic sagas, lurking beneath the surface of the text like the ships intentionally sunk at Roskilde. Unseen but absolutely essential to those in the know. Detractors of these works (perhaps students in their initial exposure to this category of literature), will complain that
Literature
As the new management of Idiosyncrasy Booksellers, I must be cutthroat in my shelving schemes...
Literature
The multidimensional audacity of Divina Commedia is well established. A Christo-classical epic, written in the vernacular, chockablock with timely political commentary woven into theological exploration. Dante does not leave a single color untouched on his palette...
Literature
History is written by the victors, but the literary canon is written by the audacious...
Literature
Leopold Bloom is a man struggling with the burdens of his time, just as his Homeric parallel fought the challenges of his own. As society developed from pre-Hellenic Greece through to turn-of-the-century Dublin, the burdens facing men evolved dramatically...