Editors’ Picks
Before Freedom Becomes a Burden: Reading Your Way into Sartre’s Being and Nothingness
Deciding what to read before Being and Nothingness is mainly an exercise in restraint. Sartre assumes some phenomenology and repeatedly…
Aristotle’s Function Argument, Precisely Located
Aristotle’s “Function Argument” is not a separate essay. It is the modern name for a passage in Nicomachean Ethics I.7,…
Barnes & Noble Classics and the Limits of the Bargain Edition
A Barnes & Noble Classics review has to separate the coherent cover system from the books inside it. Launched in…
La herencia del olvido English Translation: Why Reyes Mate’s Book Matters
Bookinlight · Untranslated Books Published in Spain in 2008, Reyes Mate’s prize-winning collection makes memory a test of political justice:…
A Stable Page for an Unstable World: How to Read The Idiot
The Best Format for Reading The Idiot is a well-annotated print edition, with an unabridged audiobook used for momentum rather…
Reason After the Barricades: Kant, Revolution, and the Discipline of Enthusiasm
Kant’s public reason was conceived before the French Revolution but acquired its sharpest political meaning after 1789, when emancipation appeared…
The Musketeers in Many Voices: Choosing the Dumas Edition Worth Reading
Best Edition of The Three Musketeers depends on whether you want Dumas’s adult, rapid, dialogue-driven French in modern English, the…
April in Bloom: Five Books on Portugal’s Carnation Revolution
Contemporary History The best books on the Carnation Revolution resist the postcard image of flowers in rifle barrels. They reconstruct…
