The Historical Figure of Jesus
E. P. Sanders' measured review of a still-interesting field.
Book Reviews
Short reflections on select recently read books. For longer reviews and analyses, see my end-of-year lists or essays.
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The Non-Jewish Jew & Other Essays
Isaac Deutscher’s prescient, judicious, and deeply humane essays on left-wing politics and Jewish experience.
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The Weird and the Eerie
Mark Fisher’s taxonomies of the unheimlich.
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Satantango
My review of Satantango by László Krasznahorkai.
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A World to Win
My review of A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx by Sven-Eric Liedman.
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Red Star Over the Third World
How the October Revolution became a beacon for the Third World project.
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The Origin of Capitalism
Is capitalism an inevitable outcome of human nature?
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Rabelais and His World
Notes from the history of laughter.