Some Surprising Good News: Bookstores Are Booming
From the New York Times
Topic
Books
A collection of 329 issues
The Violent Bear It Away, by Flannery O'Connor
A Micro-Review/Essay
Every Town has a Story Worth Saving: A Review of Hello, Bookstore
Is there another art form as dependent on chance as the documentary film? In 2019, director A.B. Zax set out to capture the story of the appropriately-if-unimaginatively-named The Bookstore, a fixture of Lenox, Massachusetts owned and operated by its proprietor Matthew Tannenbaum since 1976. With the arrival of COVID-19
Great Books Podcast Episode
Roosevelt Montás on Rescuing Socrates - EconlibHow do books change our lives? Educator and author Roosevelt Montás of Columbia University talks about his book Rescuing Socrates with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Drawing on his own educational and life journey, Montás shows how great books don’t just teach us stuff–
St. Thomas Aquinas: “The Dumb Ox," by G.K. Chesterton
A Micro-Review/Essay
The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, by George Gissing
A Micro-Review Essay
The World of the Polis, by Eric Voegelin
A Micro-Review/Essay
Plato and Aristotle, by Eric Voegelin
A Micro-Review/Essay
Leisure, the Basis of Culture, by Josef Pieper
A Micro-Review/Essay
Enemies of the Permanent Things, by Russell Kirk
A Micro-Review Essay