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2026 93

  1. G.K. Chesterton’s Nightmare: ‘The Man Who Was Thursday’
  2. The Daunting Art of Selling Fewer Books
  3. It Doesn’t Matter What You Call It: Emily St. John Mandel’s Worlds of Trouble
  4. Bookish Diversions: Books Are Alive and Well
  5. I Bit Off More Books Than I Could Chew
  6. The Way the World Could Be, or the Way the World Is?
  7. Bookish Diversions: All the Presidents’ Books
  8. 30 Years Ago, I Published Wendell Berry—by Hand
  9. Books Will Never Die—if Publishers Remember What Books Do and How They Do It
  10. Greta Gerwig’s Narnia: The Freak-out Edition
  11. My Books Needed a House of Their Own
  12. Open Thread: Hard to Finish?
  13. Don Quixote’s Guide to Better Reading
  14. How Long Till Death Revokes Your Library Card?
  15. My Sons Read ‘Middlemarch’ and Sided Against Dorothea
  16. Books: Indispensable When You’re Indisposed
  17. Bookish Diversions: Is Anyone Reading Anything?
  18. Can We Be Honest? The Tricky Side of the Truth
  19. Arrested for a Late Manuscript: Seicho Matsumoto’s ‘Tokyo Express’
  20. That’s the Deal: What Rankles You Most About AI Prose?
  21. How Books Can Build a World and Shape a Culture
  22. I Quit One of Literature’s Greatest Novels
  23. Protect Good Reading from Bad Schooling
  24. Too Much to Read? How Reading Habits Change
  25. He Sold 55 Million Books, but His Government Wouldn’t Let Him Publish
  26. All the Horrifying Things We Do to Our Books
  27. Both Converted, then One Wrote 22 Novels and the Other Burned Her Books
  28. How to Win a Billion Dollars and Ruin Your Life
  29. A Bet on American Intellectual Life—and Beyond
  30. 6 Enjoyable Ways to Read Classic Novels—or Pretty Much Anything
  31. Split Screen: ‘Children of Men’ as Both Book and Film
  32. Before You Panic About That Atlantic Reading Piece
  33. Best Way to See the Renaissance? Get the Panoramic View
  34. Everything I’ve Read So Far This Year
  35. Fake World: Everything You Think Is a Lie
  36. Kurt Vonnegut’s Ambivalent War on AI
  37. Literature: The Ultimate Answer to the Algorithm
  38. 50 Years of Creative Destruction in the Book World
  39. If the First Apocalypse Doesn’t Get You, the Second One Will
  40. Candice Millard and the Revival of History as Literature
  41. Why I’m Still Reading ‘Problematic’ Children’s Books to My Daughter
  42. There Were Two Civil Wars, and We Weren’t Always Sure Which We Were Fighting
  43. Poor Bastard: Henry Fielding’s Triumphant ‘Tom Jones’
  44. Open Thread: Your Summer Reading?
  45. Second Best? The MBR List of 101–200 Greatest Novels
  46. The Wrong Fight over AI and Writing
  47. 3 Ways to Make New Stuff Happen
  48. 100 Novels MBR Readers Would Die on a Hill For
  49. Ground Zero in the Reading Crisis
  50. Open Thread: 100 Best Novels, Seriously?
  51. Dickens, Doubled: The Hidden Architecture of ‘A Tale of Two Cities’
  52. David Copperfield: A Hero Beside the Point
  53. Bookish Diversions: How the Pros Do It
  54. Serious Reading Was Always a Minority Sport
  55. ’A Small Rebellion Against the Machine’
  56. Books: Everybody’s Favorite Magical Machine
  57. Who Really Wrote Philip K. Dick’s Best Novel?
  58. Who Killed the Book Review?
  59. The Best Novel You’ll Ever Read About Cockfighting
  60. Bookish Diversions: Why Read Shakespeare?
  61. No, Books Are Not Remotely Too Expensive
  62. Bookish Diversions: Anything Better than a Bookshop?
  63. Unpredictable Futures: Bonhoeffer and Bots
  64. I Finally Finished ‘The Brothers Karamazov’
  65. Bookish Diversions: The Point of Poetry? Slow Down
  66. No One Utters Fopdoodle with Their Dignity Intact
  67. Getting Lost Where You Live
  68. Orwell, Lewis, and Us: What Contemporaries Share Without Seeing
  69. Bookish Diversions: Use AI, Lose Your Book Deal—and Maybe More
  70. Solving This Mystery Might Destroy You
  71. Publishing’s Little Secret: It’s All Gambling
  72. Women Saints and Scientists You Should Know
  73. ‘Feminine Hands’: The Hidden History of Women in Medieval Book Culture
  74. Wrestling Coach Bets on Tolstoy and Dante to Save the Classics—and Young Men
  75. Adam Smith for Dummies
  76. Don’t Know Jack About the Other C.S. Lewis?
  77. Still Got It: Authors Who Thrive as Super Agers
  78. The Killer and the Harlot: Dostoevsky’s ‘Crime and Punishment’
  79. ‘Just Launch and Raise a Flag. People Show Up’
  80. Read Until You Understand: A Guide to Black Literature and History
  81. Is the Nonfiction Book Crisis for Real?
  82. The Novel That Kept a British Prime Minister Up All Night
  83. Open Thread: What Book Would You Live In?
  84. It’s Books All the Way Down!
  85. How Long Should This Sentence Be? Bad Question
  86. Never Quite Home: 2 Incomplete Answers for a World in Flux
  87. We Almost Lost the Statue of Liberty, and Other Misadventures in Maintenance
  88. The Terrible Books of Terrible Men
  89. The Beautiful Mess of Steinbeck’s ‘East of Eden’
  90. Chasing My Hat Through 12 Classic Novels
  91. The Ancient Roman Guide to Building Your Personal Library
  92. 10 Tips to Read More This Coming Year
  93. When All Your Stories Get Scrambled

2025 103

  1. Top 10 and More: The Best Books I Read in 2025
  2. Why Is Axe Murder Funny? Why Is It Captivating?
  3. When You Just Don’t Feel Like Reading
  4. Why Read Old Books?
  5. Open Thread: Best Books of the 21st Century?
  6. J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Against the World
  7. What Is Christian Literature? God’s Truth, Wherever You Find It
  8. Yes, Socrates Was a Hypocrite
  9. Open Thread: One Author You’re Grateful For?
  10. When You Die, Your Library Burns Down
  11. Tour My New Book, ‘The Idea Machine’
  12. Against Paul Kingsnorth’s ‘Against the Machine’
  13. What Orwell’s ‘1984’ Reveals About the Threat of AI
  14. Scars of the Past: Octavia Butler’s ‘Kindred’
  15. Worse Than Jerks: Why Some People Have Rotten Character
  16. Why We’re Still Obsessed with Dead Greeks
  17. Open Thread: How Do You Use Books?
  18. Rest Well, Work Well: The Formula for Being Human
  19. All There Is to Know, More or Less
  20. A Vietnam Vet Legend & a 20th-Century Russian with Amnesia
  21. Bookish Diversions: The Bits We Usually Ignore
  22. Seeing Goodness More Clearly
  23. A Monster’s Wish: The Friendship Missing from ‘Frankenstein’
  24. Inside My Book Launch for ‘The Idea Machine’
  25. Called to the Good, True, and Beautiful
  26. Mary Poppins, That Joyless Scold
  27. Bookish Diversions: Bound in Human Skin?
  28. Philosophy Not Working for You?
  29. We’ve Been Reading ‘Dracula’ Wrong
  30. Bookish Diversions: Kafka’s Tricksy Translation
  31. Read Along: Lou Reed, Jesus, and the Rest of Us (John 14–21)
  32. Read Along: Compare, Contrast (Luke 16–John 13)
  33. Open Thread: Good Fathers, Bad Fathers?
  34. Our Ancestors Murdered Their Mother Tongue, Thankfully
  35. Read Along: Why Parables, Jesus? (Mark 10–Luke 15)
  36. Shaped—and Misshaped—by Our Parents
  37. Read Along: Hidden Story Arcs (Matt. 16—Mark 9)
  38. Open Thread: Deliciously Weird?
  39. Read Along: Sticky Sentiments (Matt. 1–15)
  40. A Child of God Perhaps
  41. Update(!) on the September Gospel Project
  42. Crazy Idea: Let’s Read the Gospels This Month
  43. Reading: The Ultimate Aphrodisiac?
  44. Quiet Fragility: Feeling the World with Yoko Ogawa
  45. Open Sesame! Translators Unlock Words and Worlds
  46. Open Thread: Books in Translation?
  47. Mystery to Ourselves: The Brain’s Black Box
  48. ‘And Lead Us Not into Distraction’
  49. A Dream that Will Change You
  50. No Easy Money, But What If?
  51. Open Thread: Books You’ve Been Stalling?
  52. American Mythos: Why the West Still Beckons
  53. Bookish Diversions: Lifetime Reader
  54. How Many Minds Can Henry James Cram in a Single Paragraph?
  55. Bookish Diversions: Forget the Paperback?
  56. The Bible Is Weirder than We Usually Realize
  57. Open Thread: Big-Ass Classic Novels?
  58. Open Thread: Books that Define Your Worldview?
  59. Bookish Diversions: Thomas Jefferson, Bookworm
  60. Do You Want What You Want? Edith Wharton’s ‘The Age of Innocence’
  61. Note to Self: Watch Your Mouth
  62. Whatever Happened to the Semicolon?
  63. Shadow Texts: Using AI to Teach Reading and Writing
  64. The Human Comedy of ‘The Betrothed’
  65. Chickens? A Bigger Deal Than You’d Guess
  66. Narrative Control: How Stories Dominate Our Lives
  67. Machines Don’t Believe. Is That Our Secret Advantage?
  68. Prompted: Should Students Use AI, and How?
  69. When the Rules No Longer Apply
  70. A Brief Argument for Short Books
  71. Bookish Diversions: Reading as Help for Living
  72. Books Before Print, Paper, and Pixel
  73. Bookish Diversions: Not Done with Didion
  74. The Quiet Collapse of Reading—and the Only Real Solution
  75. Holy Whiskers! That Curious Time Every Pope Wore a Beard
  76. Do It for the Fat Lady: Spiritual Crisis and Comic Mercy in ‘Franny and Zooey’
  77. Open Thread: Emotional vs. Intellectual Novelists?
  78. Fragile Inheritance: How Free Speech Was Won and Could Be Lost
  79. I Apologize in Advance: The ‘B’ Word
  80. Message from Pope Francis: Read a Novel
  81. Give Us Barabbas! We Are Barabbas!
  82. Questioning the Greatness of ‘Gatsby’
  83. Whose Novels Are We Living In?
  84. My Book! ‘The Idea Machine’ Is Almost Here
  85. Open Thread: Authors You’ve Read Most?
  86. Building: How You Can, While You Can
  87. A Scrambled Story and a Puzzle to Solve
  88. Why Read and Write While the World Burns?
  89. Would You Take Life Advice from a Zombie?
  90. The Everyday Madness of Shirley Jackson
  91. 3 Reasons Your Art Might Fail (and How to Ensure It Doesn’t)
  92. Open Thread: Books You ‘Shouldn’t’ Love But Do?
  93. Just Like Yourself, Perhaps
  94. Open Thread: Books You Feel Bad about Not Liking?
  95. Forget Your Antilibrary, Try Bacon Instead
  96. 5 Reasons to Write in Your Books
  97. Cat and Mouse in the Library
  98. Bookish Diversions: To Blurb or Not to Blurb?
  99. Coloring Outside the Lines
  100. Change Your Skin, Change Your Life?
  101. Ideas Are Tools, and Words Can Heal
  102. Trapped in a World You Didn’t Choose
  103. My Favorite Books from 2024 and What’s Coming in 2025

2024 97

  1. Final(ish) Post for the Year: My Plan for December
  2. How to Predict the Future Better than a Dolphin
  3. When the Dead Won’t Stay Buried
  4. What’s the Big Deal about ‘Middlemarch’?
  5. The Books You Come Back To
  6. Thinking Is a Group Sport
  7. Meaning in Mystery: Why Noir Speaks in a Morally Ambiguous World
  8. Finding Your Needle in Chesterton’s Haystack
  9. ‘Love Triumphs over Violence—Eventually’
  10. Treat or Trick? The Trap of Our Desires
  11. Stark Truth: All the King’s Terrible Choices
  12. Bookish Diversions: Lewis and Tolkien, Pen Pals
  13. What ‘The Invisible Man’ Made Visible to Me
  14. The Stranger Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  15. All the Time I Need? Writing a Book on Schedule
  16. ‘A Chance to Heal and Develop Our Nation’s Soul’
  17. Open Thread: The Most American Character in Fiction?
  18. First Draft, Last Draft: How Hemingway Became Hemingway
  19. Consuming the News, a.k.a. Guzzling the Limbic Cocktail
  20. Bookish Diversions: Type-Oh, Dang It!
  21. Of Course It Still Matters! Why Study Literature Today
  22. Blind Bard? What History Tells Us about ‘Homer and His Iliad’
  23. Open Thread: Favorite Children’s Book?
  24. What the Ancient Greeks Can Teach Us about Innovation
  25. Fab Chore: Writing about the Beatles and Other Music Greats
  26. Eaten by a Secret: Reckoning after the Cataclysm
  27. Go on, Try It; The Semicolon Isn’t as Scary as You Think
  28. Not Useless: We Just Don’t Know What It’s for Yet
  29. Bookish Diversions: A Cover to Judge By
  30. Word People: Teaching Humanities to Harvard Scientists
  31. 5 Personal Rules for Reading Disagreeable Books
  32. ‘To Stretch My Limbs in Some Mighty Struggle’
  33. No Silos: The Challenge of Finding Your Audience
  34. Accursed Questions: Why Russian Lit Matters
  35. King’s English: The Making of a Writer
  36. Hug the Robot? AI and the Humanities
  37. Hollywood vs. the Historians: Can We Know the Past?
  38. No Mystery: The Enduring Appeal of Inspector Maigret
  39. Wisdom to Tell: Why ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ Still Matters
  40. What Shapes Our Desires?
  41. The Endless Possibility of Renewal
  42. Challenging Experts: A Lone Journalist Confronts John Steinbeck
  43. An Eternal Song: Remembering ‘A Canticle for Leibowitz’
  44. A Sketchy Parable of Our Divisive Era
  45. How Do You Organize 3,000 Books? Touring My Personal Library
  46. Russian Roulette: The Woman Who Bet on Dostoevsky
  47. 1 Mom, 2 Boys, and a Big Classic Novel
  48. Reading ‘War and Peace’ in Both War and Peace
  49. Writing History: This Time It’s Personal
  50. ‘I Talk to God in Public’
  51. Preventing the Naomi Wolf Problem
  52. Technology, Culture, and Power—What Connects Them All
  53. When You’re No Longer at Home
  54. A Working Writer in a Working Library
  55. Protesting the Decline of Reading
  56. Want a Creative Boost? Let Your Mind Run
  57. Open Thread: The Writerly Virtues?
  58. 5 Simple Ways to Nourish Your Mind
  59. French Lessons in Ghostwriting
  60. Salman Rushdie Writes Back
  61. Book Borrowing, Book Stealing: What’s the Difference?
  62. Bookish Diversions: The Puzzle of Publishing
  63. When Poets Speak of Life and Speak in Prose
  64. Ideas from Outside the Mind
  65. Book Deal? Done. Now I’ve Got 9 Months to Finish Writing
  66. Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy
  67. C.S. Lewis: Before Narnia
  68. Bookish Diversions: Lights, Camera, Bookmarks!
  69. What’s My Point? Consider the Pencil
  70. When Life Betrays You, Only Love Remains
  71. Sideways Truth: Writing in a Totalitarian Regime
  72. Hunger for Connection: Being Known by Finding Your Voice
  73. When Science Went Global
  74. What Monks Know about Focus
  75. Bookish Diversions: Do Audiobooks Count?
  76. Liberation Narratives: Out from Slavery
  77. Consult the Index: The Good Stuff Is in the Back
  78. Unclear Sailing: The Adventure of Knowing
  79. Cormac McCarthy’s Sideline: Freelance Copy Editor
  80. Editing: Scratch That, Try This Instead
  81. Bookish Diversions: Surrounded by Books
  82. Open Thread: One Book or Author You Can’t Stop Talking About?
  83. Inside the Writerly Life of Joan Didion
  84. Joan Didion Maps the California Dream
  85. Purple Rage? A Book to Offend Almost Everyone
  86. Myth Take: C.S. Lewis’s ‘Till We Have Faces’
  87. What Would You Trade for Power and Wealth?
  88. Bookish Diversion: In the Market
  89. What’s So Great about ‘The Great Gatsby’?
  90. Open Thread: Favorite Book as a Kid?
  91. Bookish Diversions: Shhh! Happens
  92. Declaration of an Independent
  93. ‘A Desire to Constantly Learn’
  94. Open Thread: Re-reading This Year?
  95. Can’t Say It There: ‘Down with Fidel!’
  96. Keep or Toss? My Personal Criteria for Culling a Library
  97. Reading Resolution for the New Year?

2023 103

  1. The Weird and Wild Mind of Charles Williams
  2. Life Is Too Small Without Books
  3. My Top 9 Books in 2023—and a Question
  4. Short Takes: 17 One-Sentence Book Reviews
  5. The Virgin Mary: Evolution of a Bookworm
  6. Bookish Diversions: Publishing Troubles
  7. My Classic Novel Goal for 2023—and What’s Coming Next
  8. The Story of Eyeglasses from the Middle Ages to my Face this Week
  9. Voices of the Past and Their Precarious Persistence
  10. The Little Girl Who Helped Beat the Nazis
  11. The Education of Malcolm X
  12. Classics as a Bridge to the World
  13. Unraveling Narnia’s Genetic Code
  14. Giving Thanks for C.S. Lewis
  15. Rescuing One Woman’s Life from Oblivion
  16. Shouldering the Burden of Belief
  17. Open Thread: Too Long, Too Short?
  18. All by Ourselves: Redeeming Loneliness
  19. Many People at Once: The Role of Literary Translators
  20. Bookish Diversions: When the Internet Was Analog
  21. What Sort of Catastrophe Do You Prefer?
  22. Open Thread: Books that Changed Your Thinking?
  23. Take You Higher—and Then What?
  24. She Wrote Her Way to Freedom
  25. Ghost in the Machine
  26. Worth Every Ruble: Katz’s ‘Brothers Karamazov’
  27. Open Thread: Most Disturbing Book Ever?
  28. Our Libraries Tell Us Stories, if We Listen
  29. The Long, Bright Shadow of Russell Kirk
  30. How Stories Work, Especially the Spooky Ones
  31. G.K. Chesterton: The Man Behind the Fence
  32. The Uses and Abuses of History
  33. Books Divide Us, but They Can Also Heal
  34. ‘A People Born of Trauma and Miracle’
  35. Open Thread: Best Opening Lines?
  36. ‘Simultaneously Very Funny and Deeply Worrying’
  37. George Orwell: Terrific Writer, Terrible Husband
  38. How to Survive an Apocalypse (Should You Ever Need To)
  39. Bookish Diversions: Down the Memory Hole?
  40. Resistance Is Not Futile: It’s How You Stay Sane
  41. All the Authors We Forgot Along the Way
  42. ‘Who We Are Depends on Who’s Watching Us’
  43. Writing for a Living? Schedule It
  44. A Woman on Her Own, Joyously and Fiercely Independent
  45. Postscript to the C.S. Lewis–T.S. Eliot Story: ‘A Grief Observed’
  46. Imagination Makes the World Go ’Round
  47. C.S. Lewis and T.S. Eliot: How Rivals Became Friends
  48. Bookish Diversions: Seeing and Being Seen
  49. Bookish Diversions: Publishing Boom and Bust
  50. Daughter and Bride: The Story of Kristin Lavransdatter
  51. One Tongue to Another: Found in Translation
  52. Actually, Try Reading Several Books at Once
  53. AI Job No. 1: Save the Humans
  54. Artificial Authenticity? When Presentation Becomes Personality
  55. That Hideous Farce and Other Offenses
  56. What’s Reality? Make Your Best Guess
  57. Let Us Now Praise Humble Bookmarks
  58. Undoing the Damage We Do Each Other
  59. Self-Help When Self-Help Doesn’t Work Anymore
  60. 3 Literary Deaths and the Ever-Evolving Book Business
  61. My Dad Gave Me Books—And More Besides
  62. Just His Type? Tom Hanks’s Mechanical Obsession
  63. On the Go: The Age-Old Human Adventure of Migration
  64. What the Humanities Can Offer Us (and AI, Too)
  65. In Your Ear: Audiobook Pros and Cons
  66. C.S. Lewis on Readin’ and ’Ritin’ (but not ’Rithmetic)
  67. Culture Is What We Make It—All of Us
  68. Slow Bullets: The Trajectory of Tragedy
  69. Shakespeare’s Plan for Personal Growth
  70. Want to Understand History? You Have to See It All at Once
  71. The Vital Necessity of Very Old Books
  72. ‘Culture Is a Huge Recycling Project’
  73. Bookish Diversions: C.S. Lewis in Writing Hell
  74. Kevin Kelly’s ‘Excellent Advice for Living’
  75. Novels Are a Waste of Time. Except They’re Not
  76. Catch-22: ‘They’re All Trying to Kill Me’
  77. Bookish Diversions: Literary Capitalism
  78. A Note to the Wise Is Sufficient
  79. James and the Giant Question: Should We Cancel Roald Dahl?
  80. Bookish Diversions: After the Final Chapter
  81. G. K. Chesterton: Underrated Model for Social Engagement
  82. Bookish Diversions: Polarized? Yes. Politicized? Please, No
  83. Learning and Unlearning: Living with Ignorance
  84. Bookish Diversions: Can Books Be Friends?
  85. Jane Austen: Savage Queen of Snark and Satire
  86. Bookish Diversions: Reading in Jail
  87. We Build the World with Imagination
  88. What Else Can We Censor While We’re Here?
  89. The Humanities Are Not Dead, Just Adjusting
  90. Pinocchio Was an Insufferable Brat—and Also Like Jesus
  91. The Irresistible Physicality of Books
  92. The Cult of Authenticity: Life in the 1990s
  93. When All Your Books Disappear
  94. ‘Among the Dragons, There Will Always Be Heroes’
  95. Why Build a Personal Library?
  96. First Thing We Do, Let’s Kill All the Copy Editors?*
  97. The Devil Went down to Moscow
  98. When Your TBR Is LOL, Try DNF
  99. Paul Johnson, RIP; Objective History, Too
  100. 3 Levers People Pull to Solve Problems AI Can’t
  101. Bookish Diversions: ‘You’ve Got Mail’ Was Wrong
  102. Globalization and Its Discontents: 16th Century Edition
  103. Bookish Diversions: Read a Book, Live Forever

2022 61

  1. My Top 9 Books in 2022
  2. Bookish Diversions: Holiday Gift Ambivalence
  3. The Future Wants to Know: Where’s My Flying Car?
  4. Enduring Fiction: My Classic Novel Goal for 2023
  5. Bookish Diversions: The Reason for Libraries
  6. The Future Is Africa: Time to Understand Its Past
  7. What Classic Novels Should I Read in 2023?
  8. Your Life Is Over. So What’s Next?
  9. Freewheelin’ Midrash: The Philosophy of Bob Dylan
  10. Bookish Diversions: What’s Bono Reading?
  11. Bookish Diversions: The Mighty and the Plucky
  12. What Do You Do When It All Goes Wrong?
  13. Bookish Diversions: How Do You Shelve Your Books?
  14. Free to Choose, Sort of: The Bingo Edition
  15. Worth a Thousand Words: Books with Pictures
  16. What Does the World Economy Have in Common with a Wheel of Cheese?
  17. The Bookcase as World’s Most Underrated UI
  18. Dear Abbot: Monastic Advice for Modern Living
  19. Bookish Diversions: Your Ideal Place to Read
  20. Immigration: True or False?
  21. Bookish Diversions: Massive Learning in a Tiny Package
  22. The Revolution Will Be Handcrafted!
  23. Life Is Improv while Keeping Time
  24. Bookish Diversions: Book Robbers
  25. Robbed of a Father, Parented by Books
  26. Bookish Diversions: Agatha Christie, Speed Demon
  27. Books Unreviewed: Anxious Among the Stars
  28. Bookish Diversions: Pretending to Read
  29. Gag Order: The Limits of Free Speech
  30. Bookish Diversions: Salman Rushdie’s Sin
  31. Bookish Diversions: David McCullough, RIP
  32. How Do You Make a Big Decision?
  33. Bookish Diversions: Memory Enhancement
  34. Our Lives Are Bound up in Books
  35. Bookish Diversions: Blockchain Books
  36. The Freedom You Make for Yourself
  37. Bookish Diversions: Cure for What Ails
  38. Anthony Bourdain: Out of the Frying Pan…
  39. Bookish Diversions: The Future Library
  40. Suppose a Child Goes to War
  41. Bookish Diversions: Mere Child’s Play
  42. Bookish Diversions: Me, Myshelf, and I
  43. Bookish Diversions: Surprise! You Need This Book
  44. Are You Amazing at What You Do?
  45. Bookish Diversions: Despotic Bookworm
  46. Based on a True Story: Dostoevsky’s Classic Novel
  47. Bookish Diversions: Drama with the Comma
  48. Walk This Way: Steps to a Better Brain
  49. Bookish Diversions: Books over Bombs
  50. Bookish Diversions: The Incredible Shrinking Bestseller
  51. Unstable in All His Ways: A New Life of Thomas Jefferson
  52. What Moves You? The Power of Emotions
  53. Books Unreviewed: Fiction, History, Religion, and Time
  54. More or Less: The World Is What You Make It
  55. If ‘Station Eleven’ and ‘The Glass Hotel’ Had a Child
  56. Under the Influence: Why You Want What You Want
  57. Nothing Is so Fragile as a Book
  58. We Make the Future by Feeling Our Way
  59. The Solution to All Our Problems: Subtraction
  60. Don’t Call It a Comeback: Science Has Been Here for Years
  61. We Know Far Less than We Think—And That’s OK

2021 2

  1. My Best Reads in 2021
  2. A Mostly Weekly Review of Remarkable Reading