Some books are entertainment. Some are information. A very small few are dynamite. They don’t just add to what you know; they change how you know it. They are philosophy books that change worldviews by locating the hidden assumptions you live your life by the very foundations of your “common sense” and putting a metaphorical […]
What makes a biography “great”? The simple answer is “accuracy.” A good biography, we assume, is one that gets all the facts right. It has the correct dates, the verified quotes, the detailed footnotes. This answer is true, but it is incomplete. It is the answer for a historian, not a reader. A simple collection […]
Why do we still read them? This is a question that echoes through classrooms and book clubs. Why do we bother with books written 50, 100, or 200 years ago, by authors who are long dead? The world has changed. We have the internet. We have immediate, global communication. We have new problems, new technologies, […]
