My weekly email started as a way to make some use of my incessant online reading habit. Some fraction of what I read seemed interesting and worth passing along. Rather than only make social postings into the void, I thought some friends would find the good things from my stack of reading interesting. And so emerged "recommended reading" which morphed, as all online things do, into a pun, "Nathanael's Reading." But you can't give a fellow like me a platform without making him think you want a ted talk. Thank you for clicking the links and for reading the words at the top!
Why do words matter? Here are three essays I present as answers.
Recommended Reading
My Summer With Leo TolstoyThis year I finally resolved to read ‘War and Peace.’ To think I might have died without having read it. |
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A Mind-Bending Translation of the New TestamentDavid Bentley Hart's text recaptures the awkward, multivoiced power of the original. |
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Where be your jibes now?I can list a hundred things David Foster Wallace should have written before he wrote a book about tax accountants. |
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