Frankenstein by Mary Shelley — What a Storm-Locked Villa and a Ghost Story Contest Produced
Some books earn their reputation one decade at a time. Frankenstein has been earning it…
God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens — What the Man Left Behind When He Left
Hitchens died in December 2011. Esophageal cancer. He knew it was coming and he said…
Peter’s Reading List: 50 Books That Built a Diner Owner, a Craftsman, and a Philosopher
Every library is an autobiography. Not the polished kind — the real kind, with the…
The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche: God Is Dead, and Heavy Metal Has Known It Longest
Friedrich Nietzsche published Die fröhliche Wissenschaft — The Gay Science — in 1882, and then…
Rembrandt’s Aristotle with a Bust of Homer — A Portrait of the Mind in Conflict
There is a reproduction of this painting mounted on wood in my living room —…
A Kierkegaard Anthology, Edited by Robert Bretall: The Thinker Who Refused to Let Me Go
Reading Kierkegaard as someone who arrived through Nietzsche is, to put it plainly, disorienting. It…
