Category: Philosophy

April 5, 2015

On Immunity by Eula Biss **** (of 4)

Every once in a long while you read a book by an author you recognize is much, much smarter than the rest of us. Christopher...

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May 21, 2012

Hitch 22 by Christopher Hitchens **** (of 4)

A memoir of Hitchen’s 60 years on earth most of it he spent as an irrascible, cantankerous, and largely contrarian thinker, writer, and agitator. As...

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June 21, 2010

Winter by Rick Bass *** (of 4)

At the age of 29, Bass forsakes his worldly belongings, save for his broken down truck, and leaves Houston for the very limit of the...

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June 18, 2010

Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein *** (of 4)

Just like the authors say, “understanding philosophy through jokes.” The book is twenty percent philosophy – ethics, existentialism, epistemology, relativity, meta-philosophy – and the rest...

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April 29, 2010

Lying Awake by Mark Salzman ** (of 4)

A short novel, or long exercise, about a Carmelite nun in an LA cloister. Nun meets God, nun loses God, nun finds medicine, nun finds...

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April 29, 2010

Life of Pi, by Yann Martel **** (of 4)

I loved it. A great piece of storytelling. Sure, there were plenty of bits worth analyzing-science vs. religion, first world vs. third world, true vs....

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April 29, 2010

I am the Messenger by Markus Zuzak * (of 4)

Feh. Zuzak’s means well. An Australian teenage no-goodnik performs saintly deeds for friends, acquaintances, and strangers transforming himself from a messenger of love to the...

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