WORLD AFFAIRS BOOKS

The culmination of our summer reading about California history.

Our June and July 2024 book was Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm Harris. Thank you to everyone...

Thank you to everyone who joined this month's conversation about Trespasses by Louise Kennedy. This novel, set in Belfast in 1975,...

Photo thanks to AXP Photography. Thank you to everyone who attended our April discussion about Lynne Olson's book Empress of the Nile:...

Notes on Louisa Lim's book 'Indelible City: Dispossess and Defiance in Hong Kong.'

Hello, Readers. Thank you to everyone who brought their observations of and insights into Jon Fosse’s novel The Other Name: Septology...

There was so much to unpack and explore in this 1977 novella!

Notes on 'The Vanquished' by Robert Gerwarth

Thank you to everyone who joined this month's conversation about Toni Morrison's acclaimed (and frequently banned) book Beloved.

Follow-up from our conversation about 'How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America' by Clint Smith

Notes on 'The Murders that Made Us' by Bob Calhoun, discussed in August 2023.

More to explore about 'The Sorrows of Young Werther.'

Links to explore the themes of 'Weapons of Math Destruction.'

Notes on 'Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing' by Jacob Goldstein.

Links for exploration from our discussion of Julian Barnes' novel 'The Noise of Time,' about composer Dmitri Shostakovich.

Follow up to our discussion of 'China's Gilded Age' by Yuen Yuen Ang.

Links to explore from 'We Are Bellingcat: The Online Sleuths Solving Global Crimes'

Notes on 'Human Voices' by Penelope Fitzgerald.

Links for exploration from our discussion of 'Why Liberalism Failed' by Patrick Deneen.

Notes from our discussion of 'Stoner' by John Williams.