The power of mythology
“Vodka is for the skinny and scotch is for the strivers and bourbon is for the homesick.”
All posts tagged: Recommended Readings
Mother of Simbel
The thrilling story of Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt and the saving of Abu Simbel.
Genius, hubris, tragedy
Thoughts on Oppenheimer, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki on the anniversary of the bombing.
A revelatory journey to find the nation’s soul
A meditation on the work to be done to gain a more honest rendering of the country.
Destroying what is beautiful
The second in Donna Leon’s long-running Commissario Guio Brunetti mystery series.
If this was lost, let us all be lost always
For poet Mary Oliver, attention is the beginning of devotion.
Legitimacy, once lost, is hard to reclaim
Our extremist Supreme Court is a train wreck fifty years in the making.
Indigenous perspectives
Indigenous voices provide important perspectives; counter histories that relay new ideas and concepts.
The tyranny of binary choice
Think expansively about the type of world we want instead of just bickering over the directions.
The dark underworld of the soul
Come and explore a modern, sexy, complex crime novel by a Norwegian master of the genre.
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