Book Reviews

Philip Pullman’s 1995 book The Golden Compass is actually really good, and unlike some young adult entries, has actual literary value. But reflecting back on it, I can’t read this book again.

If you’re a 90s kid like myself, you’ve probably noticed that Harry Potter is just a lot less popular than it was 25 years ago. Sure, there are still hundreds of millions HP books in circulation and new media being produced in, God help me for saying this, the same cinematic universe, but despite all … Read more

The Handbook of Fifth Generation Warfare, edited by Daniel H. Abbott, is an attempt to build upon the theory of generational warfare pioneered by William S. Lind that came to be a blueprint for how the US military establishment tries to warfight. It was a total failure.

A lot has changed since 1848, but some things have not changed at all. No doubt, Dostoevsky’s unnamed virginal protagonist still wanders the streets of Saint Petersburg drowning in his own loneliness, and as deprived of female companionship as ever before.

Last night I read Mumu, an 1852 short story by Ivan Turgenev. If you are not already familiar with Mumu, I would like you to read it first, and there is an English translation available here. As I said, it is short, only 22 pages. If you really don’t want to take my word for … Read more