“Dix versions de Kafka” (essai), de Maïa Hruska, Grasset, 2024.
“Que devient l’œuvre d’un écrivain lorsqu’il est traduit, surtout s’il s’appelle Franz Kafka ? Au milieu des années 1920, dix écrivains font éclore ses œuvres hors de la langue et du lieu où il les avait conçues, et les sauvent de l’oubli auquel les autorités soviétiques et nazies les avaient condamnées. Pendant plusieurs décennies, Kafka n’existera principalement qu’en traductions, via d’autres voix (…)”
"Look in any direction along the political spectrum and sperm are in danger, or endangering someone else." —Rosecrans Baldwin for GQ
https://longreads.com/2025/03/14/are-men-in-a-spermpocalypse/
Just finished How The Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith. 
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5226181644
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in filterworld, kyle chayka dives into how algorithms shape culture and their unsettling implications. what works gets replicated. mainstream becomes the only stream. diversity & complexity slip through the cracks.
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full review: https://idealistatheart.com/filterworld-by-kyle-chayka/
art monsters is an absorbing deep dive into the art world through a feminist lens with its author lauren elkin as an excellent guide.
he questions she raises linger long after the last page. who controls the narrative of art? who gets to be seen? and what happens when women (and their art) refuse to be anything but themselves?
full review: https://idealistatheart.com/art-monsters/
Art History: The Basics by Diana Newall & Grant Pooke, 2008
Art History: The Basics is a concise and accessible introduction for the general reader and the undergraduate approaching the history of art for the first time at college or university. It will give you answers to questions like: What is art and art history? What are the main methodologies used to understand art? How have ideas about form, sex and gender shaped representation?
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World by Jason Hickel, 2020
Our planet is in trouble. But how can we reverse the current crisis and create a sustainable future? The answer is: DEGROWTH. Less is More is the wake-up call we need. By shining a light on ecological breakdown and the system that's causing it, Hickel shows how we can bring our economy back into balance with the living world and build a thriving society for all.
Currently reading: the Black Jacobins by CLR James. I somehow never actually read this classic work on the founding of Haiti, and I'm fixing that. It's amazingly clear and direct for a work written in 1938--far more readable than I was expecting for a seminal work of history. Highly recommended--affiliate link to buy it and support indie bookstores below! https://bookshop.org/a/108872/9780679724674 #history #books #book #nonfiction
Kindred Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes
Much of what defines us was also in Neanderthals, and their DNA is still inside us. Planning, co-operation, altruism, craftsmanship, aesthetic sense, imagination, perhaps even a desire for transcendence beyond mortality. Kindred does for Neanderthals what Sapiens did for us, revealing a deeper, more nuanced story where humanity itself is our ancient, shared inheritance.
"Each season brings its own chance of furthering that dream, rendering devastation, or usually, delivering a dose of both." —Lindsey Liles for Garden & Gun
https://longreads.com/2025/03/13/inside-the-fight-to-save-theworlds-most-endangered-wolf/
“The Nazi Mind: Twelve Warnings From History”, Laurence Rees, Viking; 1st edition, 2025
“How could the Nazis have committed the crimes they did? Why did commandants of concentration and death camps willingly – often enthusiastically – oversee mass murder? How could ordinary Germans have tolerated the removal of the Jews?”
Book Review #6 for 2025 is Malcolm Gladwell's Revenge of the Tipping Point. I have read several of Gladwell's books over the years and have always found them interesting. This is a revisit of the themes of his first book, The Tipping Point, published in 2000. It was interesting but a bit worn in subject. A 
Today in Labor History March 12, 1928: The St. Francis Dam failed in Los Angeles, California, killing 431 people. It is the second deadliest disaster in California, after the 1906 earthquake, and one of the worst U.S. civil engineering disasters ever. A defective foundation and design flaws caused the failure. Yet, the inquest absolved chief engineer, William Mulholland, of all criminal responsibility, and he continued to earn a salary from the Bureau of Public Works (though his career was effectively ended). The authorities continued to find the remains of victims of the flood until the mid-1950s. Many of the victims were washed out to sea. Some washed ashore as far south as Mexico. Mulholland was also the designer of the 233-mile Los Angeles Aqueduct, which sucks water from the Owens Valley and is a major cause of the depletion of the fragile Mono Lake. As its water levels continues to decline, it threatens the world’s second largest gull rookery, home to up to 50,000 birds. The aqueduct’s construction, and the shady methods Mulholland used to acquire the water rights, led to the California Water Wars between L.A. County and Owens Valley farmers. Many of those same Anglo farmers (or their predecessors) usurped the land from Piute people during the 1863 Owens Valley Indian War, which was precipitated, in part, by the vast loss of human and cattle lives, and the displacements, caused by the Megaflood of 1861, which inundated much of the West, from Idaho and Oregon, down to northern Baja California. The corruption related to the construction of the aqueduct has been portrayed in the film Chinatown, and in the nonfiction book, “Cadillac Desert.”
For more on the Megaflood of 1861, please read my article, “Worse Than the Big One”: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2023/01/04/worse-than-the-big-one-californias-coming-megaflood-2/
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Bipolar Depression
Molecular Neurobiology, Clinical Diagnosis, and Pharmacotherapy
By Carlos A. Zarate Jr. (Editor), Husseini K. Manji (Editor), 2018
This book brings together mental health professionals and researchers to offer the most up-to-date information on the diagnosis, treatment, and research surrounding bipolar depression.
Digital Forensic by Nilakshi Jain, 2019
This book is for those who desire to learn more about investigating and fighting digital crimes. It covers latest challenges faced in digital forensic like email forensic, mobile forensic and cloud forensic. It also sequentially explains disk forensic, network forensic, memory forensic, mobile forensic and cloud forensic.
Encyclopedia of Green Materials by Chinnappan Baskar et al, 2025
Encyclopedia of Green Materials covers comprehensive overview, recent research and development of Green Materials and Green Nanomaterials, and their applications in all areas, including electronics, sensors, textiles, biomedical, energy and energy storage, building constructions and interiors design, automotive, green plastic manufacturing, food packing
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"How Sheridan creates these worlds complements the theme of one brave man — occasionally, a woman — taking on the malignant forces hell-bent on destroying this country." —Stephen Rodrick for Rolling Stone
https://longreads.com/2025/03/11/its-taylor-sheridans-world-were-just-watching-it/
Reading now: After the Flying Saucers Came. Such a flowing history of UFOs in culture. Easy to read, engaging, thoughtful. #nonfiction #paranormal #popculture #UFO #UAP
I know in the past I've posted a lot about reading nonfiction but it turns out I prefer reading fiction. 
The nonfiction I read tends to be depressing and enraging because I read about history and politics (humans haven't changed at all over centuries).
So I end up reading fiction to help me chill out and recover from the exhausting nonfiction. 
