Editors’ Picks
The Red Spine and the Moving Canon: What Vintage Classics Is For
A Vintage Classics review has to look past the red spine. The series succeeds brilliantly as a trade library: visually…
The Mean in Its Proper Place: Aristotle’s Doctrine in Book II
The “Doctrine of the Mean” is not a separate Aristotelian essay. The Doctrine of the Mean in Nicomachean Ethics is…
Choosing Don Quixote: Wit, Fidelity, and the Editions Worth Owning
Best Translation of Don Quixote is, for most readers, Edith Grossman’s: it combines contemporary clarity with enough formal gravity to…
Antonio Escohotado’s Vast History of Property Is Still Missing in English
Antonio Escohotado’s three-volume history of hostility to property and exchange appeared in Spain between 2008 and 2016, provoking admiration for…
The Karamazov Choice: Why Print Should Lead and Audio Should Follow
For a first serious encounter, print is the stronger main format. The Brothers Karamazov Print vs Audiobook decision turns on…
A Crown Divided: Five Histories of the Spanish Succession War
The best books on the War of the Spanish Succession reveal more than Marlborough’s victories. Read together, these five works…
The Debt Inside Conscience: Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Guilt
Nietzsche on guilt and debt is not a thesis that morality simply grew out of bookkeeping. It is an account…
The Stoic Path: Four Books from First Principles to Daily Practice
Where to Start with Stoicism is less obvious than the familiar quotations suggest. Begin with a lucid modern orientation, then…
