Books and Films and Such
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