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An Imaginary Exhibit: The Big Idea, Engines of Progress, Self-Creation, Generative AI, More
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Chasing My Hat Through 12 Classic Novels
Read Along with My 2026 Reading Plan—and the Tenuous Theory Holding It Together
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The Ancient Roman Guide to Building Your Personal Library
6 Ways to Assemble an Enviable Book Collection in a World Long Before Amazon
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How Do You Organize 3,000 Books? Touring My Personal Library
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Against Paul Kingsnorth’s ‘Against the Machine’
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What Monks Know about Focus
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The Quiet Collapse of Reading—and the Only Real Solution
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What’s the Big Deal about ‘Middlemarch’?
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Protesting the Decline of Reading
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Simple Strategies to Stretch the Marginal Time We All Have to Read More This Year than Last
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When All Your Stories Get Scrambled
Reviewing Mario Vargas Llosa’s Classic Comic Novel ‘Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter’
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Top 10 and More: The Best Books I Read in 2025
I Read 112 Books This Year. Here’s What I Liked Most. Plus: A Major Milestone
Dec 20, 2025
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Why Is Axe Murder Funny? Why Is It Captivating?
Reviewing Rachel McCarthy James’s ‘Whack Job’ and Andrew Klavan’s ‘The Kingdom of Cain’
Dec 13, 2025
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When You Just Don’t Feel Like Reading
Why Book Fatigue Sometimes Saps Our Drive, Plus 3 Easy Ways to Regain Your Mojo—Including Audiobooks
Dec 10, 2025
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Why Read Old Books?
An Update on My Big-Ass Classic Novel Challenge for 2026
Dec 8, 2025
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Open Thread: Best Books of the 21st Century?
We’re 25 Years In! You Tell Me.
Dec 6, 2025
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J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Against the World
Reviewing Joseph Loconte’s ‘The War for Middle Earth: J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Confront the Gathering Storm, 1933–1945’
Dec 3, 2025
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What Is Christian Literature? God’s Truth, Wherever You Find It
An Argument for Christian Humanism, if Such a Thing Is Needed
Dec 1, 2025
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