Currently reading
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Recently read
The Scarlet Letter
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books (Everyman's Library)
The Call of the Wild
Brave New World
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
The Life of King Henry the Fifth
War and Peace
Great Expectations
The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth
The First Part of King Henry the Fourth
All Quiet on the Western Front
Wuthering Heights
Top ten books
- 1Paradise LostJohn Milton, 1667
- 2Heart of DarknessJoseph Conrad, 1899
- 3A Tale of Two CitiesCharles Dickens, 1859
- 4Two Treatises of GovernmentJohn Locke, 1689
- 5The Lord of the RingsJ.R.R. Tolkien, 1954 to 1955
- 6Les MisérablesVictor Hugo, 1862
- 7Moby-DickHerman Melville, 1851
- 8LeviathanThomas Hobbes, 1651
- 9CandideVoltaire, 1759
- 10A Hero of Our TimeMikhail Lermontov, 1840
Top ten films
- 1There Will Be BloodPaul Thomas Anderson, 2007
- 2No Country for Old MenJoel and Ethan Coen, 2007
- 3The Lord of the RingsPeter Jackson, 2001 to 2003
- 4O Brother, Where Art Thou?Joel and Ethan Coen, 2000
- 5Babette's FeastGabriel Axel, 1987
- 6L'humanitéBruno Dumont, 1999
- 7The Taste of ThingsTrần Anh Hùng, 2023
- 8MementoChristopher Nolan, 2000
- 9Anatomy of a FallJustine Triet, 2023
- 10Past LivesCeline Song, 2023
Podcasts
- 1Money TalksEconomics and markets
- 2Checks and BalanceAmerican politics
- 3The IntelligenceThe daily news show
- 4The ArgumentFrom The Argument
- 5Plain English with Derek ThompsonThe Ringer
- 6BabbageScience and technology
- 7Drum TowerChina
- 8Journal en français facileRFI, the news in simple French
Publications
What I read regularly.
- The EconomistWeekly
- The AtlanticMonthly
- The ArgumentSubstack
- Foreign AffairsBimonthly
- Slow BoringSubstack, Matthew Yglesias
- Lapham's QuarterlyQuarterly
