Art Garfunkel famously keeps track of the books he has read since 1968. As of writing this, the count is 1327 (he does not add a review). I thought I could do something similar but I am adding short reviews of books as I read them, and I rake my brain over what I read over the last decades. This is, evidently, a work-in-progress: there are 596 reviews so far. Titles marked with a * are particular favorites.


Eric R. Wolff: Europe and the peoples without history *

Wolf was an anthropologist, but this will not stop me from stating that this is a work that is up there with Braudel et alt. as some of the best history writing, ever. I may be tarred and feathered for that statement, from either side of that divide.