2020-21 Reading

December 2021

Extinct : A Compendium of Obsolete Objects edited by Barbara Penner, Adrian Forty, Olivia Horsfall Turner, and Miranda Critchley

How to Be a Friend : An Ancient Guide to True Friendship by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Type Is Beautiful : The Story of Fifty Remarkable Fonts by Simon Loxley

Africa's World War : Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe by Gérard Prunier

What We Think About When We Think About Soccer by Simon Critchley

November 2021

A&R Pioneers : Architects of American Roots Music on Record by Brian Ward and Patrick Huber

You Could Look It Up : The Reference Shelf from Ancient Babylon to Wikipedia by Jack Lynch

A History of Ancient Egypt, Volume 2 by John Romer

October 2021

The Drama of Celebrity by Sharon Marcus

Historiography : Ancient, Medieval, and Modern by Ernst Breisach

September 2021

The Mechanic Muse by Hugh Kenner

August 2021

Designing English : Early Literature on the Page by Daniel Wakelin

A History of Ukraine : The Land and Its Peoples by Paul Robert Magocsi

Typographic Firsts : Adventures in Early Printing by John Boardley

The Book in the Renaissance by Andrew Pettegree

July 2021

A History of Histories : Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries [...] by John Burrow

June 2021

Superforecasting : The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner

May 2021

30 April 1945: The Day Hitler Shot Himself and Germany's Integration with the West Began by Alexander Kluge

April 2021

French Theory : How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, & Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States by François Cusset

February 2021

By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean : The Birth of Eurasia by Barry Cunliffe

December 2020

The Sea Ranch : Architecture, Environment, and Idealism edited by Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher and Joseph Becker

August 2020

Prince of Aesthetes : Count Robert de Montesquiou, 1855-1921 by Philippe Julian

January 2020

Letters of Max Beerbohm, 1892-1956 edited by Rupert Hart-Davis