books and book reviews

Wheel of Time and Game of Thrones

A Case Study in the Decline of Fantasy

Mar 29 •

What Some Modern Takes on Measure for Measure Miss

Shakespeare Wasn't Writing a Play for the Twenty-First Century

Mar 15 •

Hardihood Books Newsletter 24

May 31, 2023 •

Hardihood Books Newsletter 19

Dec 31, 2022 •

Thankfulness and Literature

Great Books in an Age of Ingratitude

Nov 9, 2022 •

Defending the American Literary Tradition

A Partial Case for Why America's Contribution to Literature is Worth Celebrating

Jul 22, 2022 •

Intertextuality and Emergent Order

Everything in Literature is Connected and Nobody Planned That

Jun 10, 2022 •

Was Isaac Asimov a Soft Totalitarian?

A Controversial Take on a Sci-Fi Great.

Jun 1, 2022 •

Hardihood Books Newsletter #7

Jan 1, 2022 •

Everything Starts Somewhere.

A Review of Terry Pratchett's "Hogfather."

Dec 20, 2021 •

Human Nature in the Year 3000

Reflections on Arthur C. Clarke's "3001: A Space Odyssey"

Nov 9, 2021 •

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