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)

  • Martha Wells, The Muderbot Diaries

  • Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life

  • Adam Phillips and Stephen Greenblatt, Second Chances: Shakespeare & Freud

  • Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

  • Harold Bloom, Falstaff: Give Me Life

  • John Maddox Roberts, The Sacrilege

  • Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

  • P.G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh

  • Julie Schumacher, The English Experience

  • P.G. Wodehouse, Thank You, Jeeves

  • Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four

  • Colin Duriez, The Oxford Inklings: Lewis, Tolkien, and Their Circle

  • Julie Schumacher, The Shakespeare Requirement

  • Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

  • 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

  • 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

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

  • Tad Brennan, The Stoic Life: Emotions, Duties, and Fate

  • Alan Thomas, The Ethical Philosophy of Bernard Williams

  • David Chalmers, Reality+ Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy

  • Nancy Sherman, Stoic Wisdom

  • Andrew S. Curran, Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely

  • Peter Singer and Shih Chao-Hwei, The Buddhist and the Ethicist

  • Charles Taylor, A Secular Age

  • Simon Blackburn, Plato’s Republic: A Biography

  • John Kaag, Sick Souls, Healthy Minds

  • 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

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

    …for the First Time (History and Biography)

  • Charles King, Every Valley The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's Messiah

  • Russell Martin, Picasso's War

  • Stephane Henaut and Jeni Mitchell, A Bite-Sized History of France: Gastronomic Tales of Revolution, War, and Enlightenment

  • Anka Muhlstein, Camille Pissarro: The Audacity of Impressionism

  • Leonie Frieda, Francis I: The Maker of Modern France

  • Ross King, The Bookseller of Florence

  • Philip Matyszak, Sparta: Rise of a Warrior Nation

  • Tom Holland, The Forge of Christendom

  • Graham Robb, Parisians

  • Philip Matyszak, Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World

  • Eric Cline, 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed

  • Barry Strauss, The Trojan War: A New History

  • Agnès Poirier, Left Bank: Art, Passion, and the Rebirth of Paris, 1940-50

  • Jennifer T. Roberts, The Plague of War: Athens, Sparta, and the Struggle for Ancient Greece

  • Mark Braude, Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris

  • Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Empire: 1875-1914

  • Graham Robb, The Discovery of France

  • Mary McAuliffe, When Paris Sizzled

  • Orlando Figes, The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture

  • Mary McAuliffe, Twilight of the Belle Epoque

  • Mary McAuliffe, Dawn of the Belle Epoque

  • John Julius Norwich, A History of France

  • Simon Schama, A History of Britain, Volume 3

  • Cynthia Saltzman, Plunder: Napoleon's Theft of Veronese's Feast

  • Simon Schama, The Face of Britain

  • Peter Ackroyd, London: The Biography

  • 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

  • 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

  • Ross King, Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling

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

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

  • 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

…for the First Time (Other Non-Fiction)

  • Julie Barlow and Jean-Benoit Nadeau, The Bonjour Effect

  • Tom Chivers, Everything is Predictable

  • Megan O’Gieblyn, God, Human, Animal, Machine

  • Janet Browne, Darwin's Origin of Species: A Biography

  • Adam Phillips, Unforbidden Pleasures

  • Ronald J. Daniels, What Universities Owe Democracy

  • Johann N. Neem, What's the Point of College? Seeking Purpose in an Age of Reform

  • James Carse, Finite and Infinite Games

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Nathan D. Grawe, The Agile College

  • Derek Bok, Higher Education in America

  • Alan Lightman, Einstein’s Dreams

…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

    • Macbeth

  • 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

  • DanDaDan

  • Silo, Seasons 1 and 2

  • Man on the Inside

  • Fallout, Season 1

  • Sunny

  • Collateral

  • Strange New Worlds, Seasons 1 and 2

  • Sugar

  • 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, Seasons 1 and 2

  • Shining Girls

  • Endeavor, Seasons 1-5

  • Outer Range, Seasons 1 and 2

…Films

  • Joy

  • The Wild Robot

  • Late Night with the Devil

  • 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

  • Julius Caesar, Tulane Shakespeare Festival

  • Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre

  • 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

  • The St. Louis Museum of Art

  • The Missouri Museum of History

  • The Missouri Botanical Garden

  • The National Portrait Gallery (London)

  • The Tate Britain

  • The National Gallery (London)

  • The Tate Modern

  • The British Museum

  • 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