Milo and the Calf

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    Review: Drazin’s Maimonides

    Maimonides: Reason Above All Israel Drazin This is an odd little volume on the great Jewish thinker, the Rambam. Perhaps its worth a read for someone like me — a novice Jewish scholar. There is a lot of good introductory material here, but the book is kind of all over the place. Chapters focus on…

  • Review: Zimler’s The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon

    The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon Richard Zimler Murder mystery set among the Jewish community of Lisbon at the time they were being forced into exile. Good for the pop history of the Jews of Lisbon, but sub-par as a murder mystery. The scene of a community being torn apart and murdered because of antisemitism is…

  • Review: Levy’s Who Killed Daniel Pearl

    Who Killed Daniel Pearl? Bernard Henri Levi Levy is an ass. Frankly, I have no idea why I thought reading this book was going to be a good idea. Perhaps it was worth the five hours or so it took to knock this one out, just so I know never to read anything by this…

  • Review: Harrison’s The Raw and the Cooked

    The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand Jim Harrison I read an article by Harrison in the New Yorker about some crazy huge meal full of rare delicacies that he was invited to eat in which the chef, before serving told the diners, told them to “eat with courage”. I thought that…

  • Review: O’Brien and Williams’s Global Political Economy

    Global Political Economy: Evolution and Dynamics Robert O’Brien and Marc Williams This is another one that was probably more a textbook than a book, but as I read it cover to cover in undergrad, it counts. Politically economy is sometimes used as a code word for Marxists, but in O’Brien and Williams it was used…

  • Review: Perkin’s Confessions of an Economic Hitman

    Confessions of an Economic Hit Man John Perkins This is garbage. Worse than that, it’s dangerous. First of all, I think Perkins is a total liar. I don’t doubt that there are people out there that make their living by betting against developing countries, and I don’t doubt that there are people who have an…

  • Review: Brown’s Angels and Demons

    Angels & Demons – Movie Tie-In Dan Brown You would think that after I finished this piece of utter crap I wouldn’t have carried on and read the DaVinci Code. But I did. Anyone who has looked at my other reviews know my taste in literature is suspect at best, but even I couldn’t stomach…

  • Review: Cuito’s Koolhaas / OMA

    Rem Koolhaas: Oma (Archipockets) Aurora Cuito I bought this little art book with a brief intro to Koolhaas’s ideas and buildings in the gift shop of his Seattle public library (which is still one of the most amazing building I have ever been in). It isn’t much of a book really, mainly picture from the…

  • Review: Raymond’s Cairo

    Cairo Andre Raymond Its amazing to me that a city with a history so rich, that spans such important events in history of the world, can be turned into such a boring book. I think Raymond is aping Braudel in this book with his focus on the economics and geographical changes that happened in Cairo’s…

  • Review: Fichte’s Vocation of Man

    The Vocation of Man (Hackett Classics) Johann Gottlieb Fichte A standard text in the world of undergraduate classes in European philosophy*, Fichte is a bridge of sorts between Kant and Hegel. If memory serves, we read this book not for its thoughts on the nature of faith, but for its use of the dialectic. My…