Milo and the Calf

Author: seanv2

  • Review: Nelson’s The Argonauts

    The Argonauts Maggie Nelson If you’re interested in parenting, gender identity, committed relationships, theory, love, sex, motherhood, queer theory or just gut wrenchingly good memoirs, you really should read Maggie Nelson’s the Argonauts. Conceived as a set of vignettes, the book tells the story first of Nelson’s marriage to Harry Dodge, a gender queer artist…

  • Review: Appiah’s Cosmopolitianism

    Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time) Kwame Anthony Appiah I read a fair number of think-piece-next-big-idea type books. Most of these have little to no staying power, either in the culture at large, or in my own head. Appiah’s conception of cosmopolitanism as described in this little book is different.…

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    Dah fuck with all the book reviews?

    I had coffee with an old friend earlier this week and he asked what was up with all the book reviews I’ve been posting. Perhaps a brief explanation is in order. Over the years, I’ve written short (and sometimes not so short) book reviews for a number of different livejournals, blogs, and websites. As part…

  • Totals for the Week Ending 9.6.2015

    Run Miles for the week: 24.3 in 4:05:40 Run Miles for the year: 1019.9 Projected total miles for the year: 1494.8 Weekly/Daily averages to reach 2015 run miles 60.6/8.7 Run Streak: 0 Number of runs that were one stupid mile: 0 Days until I beat my old run streak: n/a Prospect Park loops for the…

  • Review: Norton’s Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire

    Ed note: Like the many, many other reviews I’ve been posting here lately, this one was written for a now defunct live journal account. Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire Anne Norton Though the neocon movement seems more and more like a thing of history, this is a nice quick and easy read…

  • Review: Oakes’s The Ruling Race

    Ed note: this and the many other reviews I’ll be posting over the coming weeks come from a now long defunct livejournal and are posted here for my records and (hopefully) your enjoyment. The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders Jim Oakes I know many smart people (people much smarter than me) who have…

  • Review: Kolchin’s American Slavery

    Ed. Note – this is one a 100 or so book reviews I wrote for a now long defunct livejournal. I’m posting it, and many others like it for my own records and hopefully your enjoyment. Name Your Link Peter Kolchin If you’re going to read one overview book on the history of slavery in…

  • Review: Diamond’s Guns Germs and Steel

    Ed note: A version of this review was originally published on a now long defunct livejournal.   Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Jared Diamond There is a whole industry of books that explain why the world is the way it is. They are all by definition reductive and fail to grasp…

  • Review: Oshinsky’s Worse Than Slavery

    Ed note: this review originally appears in a now long defunct livejournal. Worse than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice David M. Oshinsky This is the must read book on the faailures of reconstruction and the horrors of the Jim Crow era. When I was reading it, there were times I…

  • Review: Iron’s A People’s History of the Supreme Court

    A People’s History of the Supreme Court: The Men and Women Whose Cases and Decisions Have Shaped OurConstitution: Revised Edition Peter Irons A pretty well done progressive view of the Supreme Court. This one hits all the necessary rules (Dred Scott, Korematsu, Brown and so many more) while also covering some lesser known rulings like…