Sunday, June 14, 2009

Reading Rat Vol. 3 No. 16

New and updated posts on my recommended reading...


Art and Literature

Neil Astley on Kevin Hart

Wilfred M. McClay on Lampedusa

Philip Yancey on Harriet Beecher Stowe

David Luhrssen on Kurt Vonnegut

Brooke Allen on the Dictionary of Samuel Johnson

The Economist on Flannery O'Connor

Philip Yancey on Alexander Solzhenitsyn

David Letterman on Samuel Beckett

Frank Kermode on the life of John Milton


Society and History

David Gessner on Henry David Thoreau

George Weigel on Abraham Lincoln


Science and Technology

The Onion on James D. Watson


Philosophy and Religion

David Novak on The Kabbalah

Alan Mittleman on Martin Buber


On the recommended reading list itself, I've added comments from The Great Books: A Journey through 2,500 Years of the West's Classic Literature (2009), by Anthony O'Hear

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