Books and Films and Such

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Here Is What I’ve Been Reading and Viewing in the Last Year-or-TWO

Reading…

…for the First Time (Fiction and Poetry and Such)

  • John Maddox Roberts, The Catiline Conspiracy

  • Terry Eagleton, Tragedy

  • John Maddox Roberts, The King’s Gambit

  • Sarah Ruden, Vergil: The Poet’s Life

  • A.S Byatt, Ragnarok

  • Julie Schumacher, Dear Committee Members: A Novel

  • Ian McEwan, Machines Like Me

  • Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

  • Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

  • Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

  • William Gibson, Neuromancer

  • Iain M. Banks, Use of Weapons

  • Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games

  • William Gibson, The Peripheral

  • Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas

  • Larry Niven, Ringworld’s Children

  • Larry Niven, The Ringworld Throne

  • Larry Niven, The Ringworld Engineers

  • Larry Niven, Ringworld

  • Peter Nichols, Modernisms: A Literary Guide

  • Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, This is How You Lose the Time War

  • Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

  • Isaac Asimov, The Complete Robot

  • Jennifer Egan, The Candy House

  • Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life

  • Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility: A Novel

  • Connie Willis, Doomsday Book

  • Patricia Lockwood, No One is Talking about This

  • Stuart Kells, Shakespeare’s Library

  • Anita Brookner, Look at Me

  • Daniel Mendelssohn, Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate

  • Lauren Groff, Matrix: A Novel

  • Colm Toibin, The Master

  • Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

  • Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel

  • Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet

  • Marion Turner, Chaucer: A European Life

  • Don DeLillo, Mao II

  • Issac Asimov, Forward the Foundation

  • Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World

  • Issac Asimov, Prelude to Foundation

  • Penelope Fitzgerald, The Blue Flower

  • Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of the Hills

  • Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall

  • Issac Asimov, Foundation and Earth

  • Ted Chiang, Exhalation

  • Issac Asimov, Foundation’s Edge

  • P. W. Singer and August Cole, Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution

  • Issac Asimov, Second Foundation

  • Karel Čapek, Rossum’s Universal Robots

  • Issac Asimov, Foundation and Empire

  • Maya Jasanoff, The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World

  • Issac Asimov, Foundation

  • Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road

  • Primo Levi, The Monkey’s Wrench

  • Andrew Martin, Early Work: A Novel

  • Italo Calvino, The Complete Cosmicomics

  • Don DeLillo, The Silence

  • Domenico Starnone, Trick

  • Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2

  • Anita Brookner, Hotel Du Lac

  • Don DeLillo, Zero K

  • Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now

  • Cesare Pavese, The Moon and the Bonfires

  • Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun

  • Don DeLillo, Point Omega

  • Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel

  • George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo

  • Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant

  • Sarah Moss, Summerwater

  • Jeff VanderMeer, Dead Astronauts

  • James Shapiro, Shakespeare in a Divided America

  • Seamus Heaney (trans), Beowulf

    …for the First Time (Philosophy and Philosophy Adjacent Topics)

  • Terry Eagleton, Why Marx Was Right

  • Simon Critchley, Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us

  • Jonathan Lear, Freud (Second Edition)

  • Hannah Arendt, On Revolution

  • Erica Benner, Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli in His World

  • Alan Ryan, On Politics

  • Tenzin Gyatso and Thupten Jinpa, The Essence of the Heart Sutra

  • Anthony Gottlieb, The Dream of Enlightenment

  • Patricia Churchland, Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition

  • James Bohman and Mattias Lutz-Bachmann, Perpetual Peace: Essays on Kant’s Cosmopolitan Ideal

  • Daniel Dennett, I’ve Been Thinking

  • Seán Molloy, Kant’s International Relations: The Political Theology of Perpetual Peace

  • Nikhil Krishnan, A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy and War at Oxford: 1900-1960

  • Kieran Setiya, Midlife: A Philosophical Guide

  • Brian McGuinness (ed.), Wittgenstein and His Times

  • George Steiner, Martin Heidegger

  • Steven Nadler, Think Least of Death: Spinoza on How to Live and How to Die

  • Cécile Fabre, Cosmopolitan War

  • Wolfram Eilenberger, Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade that Reinvented Philosophy

  • David Edmonds, Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality

  • Eric C. Kandel, The Age of Insight, The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and the Brain

  • David Edmonds, The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle

  • Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails

  • Toby Ord, The Precipice

  • Stuart Jeffries, Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern

  • Charles Taylor, The Malaise of Modernity

  • Jeremy Waldron, One Another’s Equals: The Basis of Human Equality

  • Jeffery L. Nicholas (Editor), The Expanse and Philosophy

  • Michael Walzer, In the Company of Critics

  • Timothy J. Demy et al. (eds.), Military Ethics and Emerging Technologies

  • Daniel Dennett, Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking

  • David J. Gunkel, Robot Rights

  • Michael Walzer, Arguing about War

  • Catherine Wilson, How to Be an Epicurean: The Ancient Art of Living Well

  • George Kateb, Human Dignity

    …for the First Time (Other Non-Fiction)

  • James Carse, Finite and Infinite Games

  • Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Capital: 1848-1875

  • Judith Flanders, The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens’ London

  • Mike Rapport, 1848: Year of Revolution

  • Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848

  • Ian Davidson, The French Revolution: From Enlightenment to Tyranny

  • Peter Ackroyd, Revolution: The History of England from the Battle of the Boyne to the Battle of Waterloo

  • Ned Sublette, The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square

  • Adrian Goldsworthy, Augustus: First Emperor of Rome

  • Peter Ackroyd, Rebellion: The History of England from James I to the Glorious Revolution

  • Tom Holland, Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar

  • Barry Strauss, The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium

  • Anthony Everitt, Cicero

  • Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

  • Adrian Goldsworthy, Caesar: Life of a Colossus

  • Dita Amory and Ann Dumas, Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism

  • Tom Holland, Persian Fire

  • Mary Beard, SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

  • Primo Levi, The Drowned and the Saved

  • Deborah Dash Moore et al., Jewish New York: The Remarkable Story of a City and a People

  • Roy Blount Jr, Feet on the Street: Rambles Around New Orleans

  • Ross King, Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling

  • Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann

  • Jack Kornfield, Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are

  • Derek Bok, Higher Expectations: Can Colleges Teach Students What They Need to Know in the 21st Century?

  • Abigail J. Stewart and Virginia Valian, An Inclusive Academy: Achieving Diversity and Excellence

  • Eric Fromm, To Have and To Be

  • Lee G. Bolman and Joan V. Gallos, Reframing Academic Leadership

  • Dean O. Smith, How University Budgets Work

  • Maria Antonietta Crippa, Antoni Gaudí 1852-1926: From Nature to Architecture

  • Nathan D. Grawe, The Agile College

  • Derek Bok, Higher Education in America

  • Tom Wolfe, From Bauhaus to Our House

  • Stephen Budiansky, Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel

  • Magdalena Droste, Bauhaus: 1919-1933

  • Alan Lightman, Einstein’s Dreams

  • Julia Galef, The Scout Mindset

  • John R. White, A History of American Higher Education (Third Edition)

  • Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World

  • Thomas M. Kostigen, Hacking Planet Earth: Technologies That Can Counteract Climate Change and Create a Better Future

  • Brad DeLong, Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century

  • Louis Menand, The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War

  • Howard Raiffa, Memoir: Analytic Roots of a Decision Scientist

  • Michael Wooldridge, A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence What It Is, Where We Are, and Where We Are Going

  • Andrea Wulf, The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World

  • Julian Bell, Van Gogh: A Power Seething

  • Ross King, Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies

  • Alistair Horne, Seven Ages of Paris

  • Carter Malkasian, The American War in Afghanistan: A History'

  • The Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide (Revised Edition)

  • Craig Whitlock, The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War

  • Tim Harford, The Data Detective

  • Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching

  • Keith Devlin, The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern

  • Aubrey Clayton, Bernoulli’s Fallacy

  • Craig Clunas, Art in China

  • Robert E. Fischer, Buddhist Art and Architecture

  • Martin Show, The New Western War of War

  • Robert Ayson, Thomas Schelling and the Nuclear Age

  • Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach

  • George Friedman, The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century

  • David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Statistics

  • Michael Lewis, The Premonition: A Pandemic Story

  • Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies

  • Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus

  • Beppe Severgnini, La Bella Figura

  • Max Tegmark, Life 3.0

  • John Hooper, The Italians

  • Paul Scharre, Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War

  • Margaret MacMillan, War: How Conflict Shapes Us

  • Cass Sunstein, The Cost-Benefit Revolution

…Once Again as Part of My Teaching

  • Thomas Nagel, What Does It All Mean?

  • Nick Bostrom, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

  • JJC Smart and Bernard Williams, Utilitarianism: For and Against

  • Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

  • Peter Singer, The Life You Can Save

  • Peter Singer, The Most Good You Can Do

  • Will MacAskill, Doing Good Better

…Once Again Because They’re Good Old Friends

  • Bernard Williams, In the Beginning Was the Deed

  • Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (Justin O’Brien translation)

  • Bernard Williams, Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline

  • W.G. Sebald, The Emigrants

  • Michael Howard, Clausewitz

  • Thomas Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict

  • Henry James, Washington Square

  • Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

  • Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value

  • Bertrand Russell, Skeptical Essays

  • Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays

  • Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones

  • Jorge Luis Borges, Book of Sand

  • Jorge Luis Borges, ‘The Aleph’ and Other Stories

  • …Once Again Because Why Not?

  • Martha Nussbaum, The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Flawed but Noble Ideal

  • Philip Tetlock, Superforecasting

  • Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise

  • P.W. Singer and Allan Friedman, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar

  • Hannah Fry, Hello World

  • Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths, Algorithms to Live By

PROJECT: Rereading Old Books

  • Sigmund Freud

    • Totem and Taboo

    • Thoughts for the Times on War and Death

    • Civilization and Its Discontents

    • A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis

  • William James, Some Problems of Philosophy

  • Friedrich Nietzsche

    • Ecce Homo (Walter Kaufmann translation)

    • Twilight of the Idols (RJ Holingdale translation)

  • Immanuel Kant

    • Toward Perpetual Peace

    • Writings on History

  • François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

  • William Shakespeare

    • The Tempest

    • Henry IV, Part 1

    • Twelfth Night

  • Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

  • The Essential Dogen, (Kazuaki Tanahashi and Peter Levitt translation)

  • Augustine, Confessions (Garry Wills translation)

  • Marcus Aurelius Antonius, Meditations (John Jackson translation)

  • Seneca, Letters (Robin Campbell translation)

  • Cicero, On Old Age (Michael Grant Translation)

  • Confucius, The Analects (DC Lau Translation)

Watching…

…TV

  • Sugar, Season 1

  • The Three-Body Problem, Season 1

  • Constellation, Season 1

  • Criminal Record, Season 1

  • Gyeongseong Creature, Season 1

  • Carol and the End of the World

  • Blue Eye Samurai, Season 1

  • The Devil’s Hour, Season 1

  • Shining Girls

  • Endeavor, Seasons 1-5

  • Outer Range, Season 1

  • Into the Night, Seasons 1 and 2

  • Katla

  • The Silo, Season 1

  • Travelers, Seasons 1-3

  • Alice in Border Land, Season 2

  • Tales from the Loop, Season 1

  • 1899, Season 1

  • Altered Carbon, Season 1

  • Severance, Season 1

  • The Peripheral, Season 1

  • Counterpart, Seasons 1 and 2

  • Sandman, Season 1

  • Archer, Seasons 12 - 14

  • Undone, Seasons 1 and 2

  • Slow Horses, Seasons 1-3

  • Russian Doll, Seasons 1 and 2

  • For All Mankind, Season 1

  • The Expanse, Season 6

  • My Brilliant Friend, Season 1

  • Lovecraft Country

…Films

  • The Boy and the Heron

  • Murder on the Orient Express

  • The Pigeon Tunnel

  • Dune

  • A Haunting in Venice

  • The History of Time Travel

  • Asteroid City

  • Nope

  • LOLA

  • They Cloned Tyrone

  • Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds

  • Tetris

  • The Nice Guys

  • Three Thousand Years of Longing

  • The Artifice Girl

  • Europa Report

  • The Trotsky

  • The Duke

  • Marcel the Shell with Shoes on

  • The Fablemans

  • The Glass Onion

  • The Dig

  • The Vast of Night

  • Aniara

  • Fast Color

  • High Life

  • The Report

  • Time Crimes

  • Logan Lucky

  • Vivarium

  • Train to Busan

…on Stage

  • Romeo and Juliet, Tulane Shakespeare Festival

  • Twelfth Night, Tulane Shakespeare Festival

  • The Comedy of Errors, Loyola University

  • Henry IV, Part 1, Tulane Shakespeare Festival

  • As You Like It, Tulane Shakespeare Festival

  • The Comedy of Errors, Tulane Shakespeare Festival

Museums and Such

  • New Orleans Jazz Museum

  • De Young Museum

  • The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco

  • The Baltimore Museum of Art

  • The Georgia Museum of Art

  • The Hirshhorn Museum

  • Smithsonian American Art Museum

  • The Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Museum of Art

  • The National Portrait Gallery

  • The Freer Gallery of Art

  • The National Art Gallery

  • The US Library of Congress

  • Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

  • United States Botanic Garden