Friday, January 3, 2014

Free Comrades. Anarchism and Homosexuality in the United States 1895-1917 by Terence Kissack.

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Free Comrades is Terence Kissack’s well-documented history of pre-World War I, anarchist advocacy for lesbians and gays in the US. Until 1...
Sunday, November 24, 2013

The Confessions of Saint Augustine. The Influence of Self-Loathing.

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Augustine of Hippo lived during a time of exceptional upheaval. It was the beginning of the Dark Ages, when the christianized Roman Empire ...
Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Bohemian Paris by Dan Franck. Cynthia Hope Liebow, translator.

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Bohemian Paris is a lively portrait of the arts social scene between Montmartre and Montparnasse, from the late 1890’s to the 1930’s. Its ...
Sunday, November 3, 2013

Non-Overlapping Magisteria and the Quandary of Public vs Private Thoughts.

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Non-Overlapping Magisteria (or NOMA) is a concept propounded by Professor Stephen Jay Gould who was best known as an evolutionary biologist...
Tuesday, October 22, 2013

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

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A Distant Mirror is Barbara Tuchman’s detailed study of the Fourteenth Century. It ostensibly follows the life of one Enguerrand de Coucy ...
Sunday, September 29, 2013

The Story of Art by E.H. Gombrich.

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E.H.  Gombrich intended for The Story of Art to be a “first orientation” for newcomers to the subject. (Gombrich, p.7). No doubt, it is ju...
Monday, September 16, 2013

France in Modern Times by Gordon Wright.

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Gordon Wright’s cogently written France in Modern Times is a historical survey text from 1750 to the present. The author’s approach to tea...