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Reading Is One of the Ways We Learn to See
The books collected here have challenged, delighted, unsettled, and expanded my understanding of the world. These reviews aren't simply evaluations—they’re conversations with writers whose work continues to shape my own.
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
Created by Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine
Mar 11, 20254 min read
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917–2017
by Rashid Khalidi
Dec 7, 20244 min read
Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72
by Hunter S. Thompson
Nov 5, 20243 min read
The Kansa Indians: A History of the Wind People, 1673–1873
by William E. Unrau
Oct 10, 20242 min read
The Darkest Period: The Kanza Indians and Their Last Homeland, 1846–1873
by Ronald D. Parks
Sep 20, 20242 min read
Blood Memory: The Tragic Decline and Improbable Resurrection of the American Buffalo
by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns
Aug 16, 20242 min read
PrairyErth
by William Least Heat-Moon
Jul 20, 20243 min read
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
by Heather Cox Richardson
May 30, 20243 min read
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
by Timothy Snyder
Sep 15, 20232 min read
Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence
by Karen Armstrong
Aug 24, 20232 min read
Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
by Jefferson Cowie
Jun 25, 20232 min read
Twilight of Empire: Responses to Occupation
Edited by Viggo Mortensen, Mark Levine, and Pilar Perez
Jun 3, 20232 min read
The Image of the World: 20 Centuries of World Maps
by Peter Whitfield
Jan 31, 20221 min read
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever
by John McWhorter
Nov 7, 20211 min read
Nowherelands: An Atlas of Vanished Countries 1840–1975
by Bjørn Berge
Oct 29, 20212 min read
A History of Lutsen: Gateway to the Wilderness
by Robert McDowell
Aug 17, 20211 min read
Wanderlust: A History of Walking
by Rebecca Solnit
Mar 7, 20212 min read
The Souls of Black Folk
by W.E.B. Du Bois
Apr 24, 20202 min read
Hidden History of Eureka Springs
by Joyce Zeller
Dec 25, 20191 min read
Jun 18, 20193 min read
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