Category Archives: Books

Death by reproduction

A while back I read Specimen Days, by Michael Cunningham. It is a triptych of novellas bound up in a single volume - there was one that I didn’t like at all (”In the Machine”), one I liked so-so (”Like Beauty”), and one I like a lot: “The Children’s Crusade”. This third story is about […]

Terror and Liberalism

I had very high expectations for Terror and Liberalism, by Paul Berman. Lately I have taken up the strategy of trying to read good books that argue for opinions different to my own. I was firmly against the American invasion of Iraq, and having read that T & L is one of the most cogent […]