Regime Change by Patrick Deneen
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A new book calls for the overhauling of society in favor of a new pattern … or a very old one …
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The Visionaries by Wolfram Eilenberger
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A group biography of some early 20th century philosophers.
Read MorePortraits of Learned Men by Paolo Giovio
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An elegant new I Tatti volume of Giovio’s profiles of men of letters.
Read MoreDaodejing by Laozi, translated by Brook Ziporyn
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An innovative new translation of one of the most-translated books in the world.
Read MoreMagnificent Rebels by Andrea Wulf
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A fascinating look at a group of thinkers and writers in 1790s Jena.
Read MoreTime of the Magicians by Wolfram Eilenberger
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A new history of the birth of modern philosophy.
Read MoreAncient Wisdom for Modern Readers - Horace & Seneca
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New considerations of the modern-day relevance of ancient Roman writers Seneca and Horace.
Read MoreThe Essential Works of Thomas More
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All the major (and plenty of the minor) writings of St. Thomas More, in one gorgeously-designed hefty volume.
Read MoreMarx: Philosophy and Revolution by Shlomo Avineri
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Meet Marx the philosopher, economist, journalist, historian, revolutionary, and even Marx the parent.
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Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely by Andrew S. Curran
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Curran’s book is a brilliant, sparkling affair that courses over every major and minor incident in Diderot’s remarkable life.
Read MoreCharacters: An Ancient Take on Bad Behavior by Theophrastus
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This classical Greek text has been newly translated for a modern audience.
Read MoreThe Lives of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius
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A lovely and formidable English-language translation with detailed notes and essays by leading scholars.
Read MoreUniverse in Creation by Roy R. Gould
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The author argues that the universe is no random accident; rather, it is working purposefully to extract order from chaos.
Read MoreBelief by James E. Alcock
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An examination of our thoughts and feelings about the world as we believe it to be.
Read MoreBook Review: Christopher Hitchens - The Last Interview
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The thriving “Last Interview” series from Melville House features slim volumes collecting the final public comments made by a wide variety of public figures – geniuses, charlatans, comedians, artists, successful frauds, and the occasional transcendent intellectuals. Here we get reflections in winter (whether they knew it or not) from such people as David Foster Wallace, James Baldwin, Ray Bradbury, Hannah Arendt, Philip K. Dick, and Kurt Vonnegut, and this month the series takes in the late Christopher Hitchens, political commentator, outspoken atheist, and author of the bestselling God is Not Great.
Read MoreA Tiny and Swattable Mind
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In Thornton Wilder’s powerful and subversive masterpiece Our Town, Mrs. Gibbs of provincial little Grover’s Corners holds forth on the wider world: “It seems to me,” she says, “once in your life, before you die, you ought to see a country where they don‘t speak any English and they don‘t even want to.” The line is delivered with just the slightest undertone of incredulity, of disbelief that such a place could really exist.
If she could get past the dozens of entirely spurious mathematical equations and the apparently requisite acid-trip visuals, Mrs. Gibbs would feel right at home in Douglas Hofstadter’s new book, I Am a Strange Loop. Certainly the book’s tone of unquestioning self-satisfaction would help her along.