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A tour through the Social Novel, Victorian(-ish) literature, and Weimar Autumn.

My review of The Historical Figure of Jesus by E.P. Sanders.

My review of The Non-Jewish Jew and Other Essays by Isaac Deutscher.

To ring in the new year, I'm excited to share a new version of this site with a fresh design, built with Deno Lume.

This year I devoted almost as much time to building a custom reading tracker app as I did to reading, but I’m still pleased with the quantity and quality of what I read.

The final installment in this post series looks at building a dynamic front-end website for an Airtable reading tracker, using the Deno Fresh server-side rendering framework.

Using Airtable as a back-end to build out a custom reading tracker app.

An effective reading tracker would not only provide a chronological list of titles read, but would uncover the manifold associations of influence and interest that are constantly being formed from the books I read.

It is, I admit, something like a Puritan's envy for that cheerful and conciliatory user experience of the Mac that finally led me to forsake the dour Northern lands of PC-dom and to cross the operating-system Tiber.

Getting at the heart of what and why postmodernism is remains a challenge that few thinkers have been able to face with as much brilliance and perspicacity as Fredric Jameson, notably in his Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991).