Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud — The Book That Saw the Twentieth Century Coming
Freud finished Civilization and Its Discontents in 1929. Within four years, the National Socialists had…
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
Rare books locate you. You don’t choose them so much as collide with them —…
The Darwin Wars by Andrew Brown — A Review
Pick up The Darwin Wars: The Scientific Battle for the Soul of Man by Andrew…
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley — A Review
By Peter Written in 1932 — stop and sit with that for a moment. The…
Why Elephants Have Big Ears by Chris Lavers — When Nature’s Apparent Waste Turns Out to Be Genius
Pick up almost any animal and ask the simple question — why does it look…
Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation by Joseph Frank — A Review
By Peter Few writers in the canon of Western literature demand a biographer equal to…
