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Monday, October 2, 2023

Dutch by Edmund Morris

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This post was originally published on a now-retired blog that I maintained from roughly 2005 to 2013. As a result, there may be some referen...
Monday, September 25, 2023

The Runaway Soul by Harold Brodkey

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This may be the worst book I’ve ever read. And the freshness of the air, the near-silence, the amendment of suburban life, the immediacy (th...
Monday, September 18, 2023

The Essential Edward Hopper by Justin Spring

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This post was originally published on a now-retired blog that I maintained from roughly 2005 to 2013. As a result, there may be some referen...
Monday, September 11, 2023

The New Spirit by Havelock Ellis

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There’s a used bookstore in Ellison Bay, Wisconsin. Ellison Bay, if you’re not familiar with it, is a little town of 150 or so souls, near t...
Monday, September 4, 2023

The Gettysburg Nobody Knows, edited by Gabor S. Boritt

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This post was originally published on a now-retired blog that I maintained from roughly 2005 to 2013. As a result, there may be some referen...
Monday, August 28, 2023

American Rule by Jared Yates Sexton

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Sexton has called this book an alternate history of America, one which accepts white supremacy and its myths of exceptionalism as its throug...
Monday, August 21, 2023

The Whirlwind of War: Voices of the Storm, 1861-1865 by Stephen B. Oates

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This post was originally published on a now-retired blog that I maintained from roughly 2005 to 2013. As a result, there may be some referen...