Books

I promised generous excerpts from Dalrymple's new book of essays, Our Culture, What's Left of It [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1566636434/thedailyeudem-20]. I haven't delivered the goods, mostly because my typist hasn't gotten around to keying-in the passages (at

I didn't realize that my Malcolm's Messages effort was part of a trend known as "Blooks." I don't know whether to take comfort or feel humiliated. > A blook is a book serialized on a blog site. That means you can subscribe

A few months ago, I ordered a used copy of Le Rochefoucauld's [http://charon.sfsu.edu/maximfolder/RochefoucauldBio.html]Maxims. Only $6.00. Unfortunately, the book dealer didn't mention that it was in French. Besides obscene hand gestures, I doesn't know any French, so

Around age 19, I caught a reading bug and started reading everything that could possibly help settle dozens (millions?) of both precise and vague questions that bothered me. A constant but undisciplined reading frenzy continued for about three years, then I ran across James Schall's Another Sort of

An article about Joseph Conrad in the New York Times. That's good to see, even if the reasons aren't: > The Secret Agent,Joseph Conrad's 1907 novel about an anarchist plot to blow up the Royal Observatory at Greenwich -- in fact, a scheme

I used to subscribe to Mars Hill Audio magazine. I always enjoyed it, but let my subscription lapse when my commute shrunk to four minutes (15 minutes by foot). I might have to order this, though: > In this MARS HILL AUDIO Conversation, Ken Myers talks with Susan Srigley about

Books & Culture reviews James J. O'Donnell's new book, Augustine: A New Biography, and finds it wanting, to say the least. Link [http://www.christianitytoday.com/bc/2005/005/6.14.html]. Excerpts: > A reader of this book will be left wondering how Augustine could