books

Computers can only play games

Computer Power and Human Reason, chapters 1-3

Jun 1 • Danny Sullivan

Perfect alexandrine lines in The Caboose Who Got Loose

A rare instance of good verse in a children’s book

Apr 6 • Danny Sullivan

A portrait of the artist, burned out and in despair

Your Name Here (Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff, 2025)

Mar 2 • Danny Sullivan

Book Report 11/13/25

Isak Dinesen, Margaret Doody

Nov 13, 2025 • Danny Sullivan

Enough death to bind a nation

Witnesses to the dawn of modernity in Blood Meridian and River of Shadows

Sep 24, 2025 • Danny Sullivan

Assorted thoughts after reading Crime and Punishment

Aug 17, 2025 • Danny Sullivan

Book Report 8/6/25

Pamela Dean, Ursula K. Le Guin

Aug 6, 2025 • Danny Sullivan

The Charles Kinbote of Millennial Losers

Metallic Realms (Lincoln Michel, 2025)

Jun 24, 2025 • Danny Sullivan

The Southern Reach trilogy as Hegelian fiction

This is so stupid

May 31, 2025 • Danny Sullivan

Novels teach us what it feels like to be alive

More on reading and making meaning

May 22, 2025 • Danny Sullivan

Book Report 5/12/25

Two old curiosities

May 12, 2025 • Danny Sullivan

Late Star Trek chronicles the commercial and creative challenges of the franchise’s flop era

Adam Kotsko, 2025

Mar 25, 2025 • Danny Sullivan

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