Author Archives: ianuaditis

This is a sympathetic portrayal of Conservative politics in the Deep South, specifically in Louisiana, which over the last 30 years has seen its natural resources ruthlessly exploited, with large swaths of wetlands ruined by pollution caused by chemical and … Continue reading →

Part of my plan last January was to finally read that Spanish version of Don Quijote that I’ve had for years.  I’d get ahead of things by the summer and have plenty of time to finish.  Instead, I spent 3 … Continue reading →

The book by Karl Marx on the US Civil War made reference to the situation in Mexico in the 1860s, including the adventure of the French invasion and the installation of Maximilian as Emperor. It occurred to me I know … Continue reading →

This is the story of a rural Italian town in the south of Italy, populated largely by illiterate farmers, whose knowledge of the world only really extends so far as to know that the outside world basically exists to take … Continue reading →

One of the few works of fiction from Camus that I had never read prior to this challenge.  As it happened it arrived via the interlibrary loan just as I was finishing up the novel, so it was a natural … Continue reading →

I swear I started this writeup already, but I don’t find it anywhere, so here it is again. I read this with an eye towards contrasting Dostoevsky’s own arch-conservative stance with his sympathetic depictions of radical characters. This book is … Continue reading →

Years ago I picked up most of this series at a used bookstore, Ten Greek Plays, etc., but i hadn’t read this one since high school. I figured it ought to be an easy read – it’s not that long, … Continue reading →

My new favorite poet. Heroes In all these stories the hero is beyond himself into the next thing, be it those labors of Hercules, or Aeneas going into death I thought the instant of the one humanness in Virgil’s plan … Continue reading →

Well it’s now crunch time, November 1st. 60 days, give or take, and I’m on 166 books completed. I’ve only finished 16 since July 1st, which is pretty bad, but looking around the floor where I’m sitting I’ve got at … Continue reading →