Books deserve better than star ratings and summary paragraphs. I write about what I’m reading — novels, essays, history, science, poetry — with the kind of attention that treats literature as something worth thinking about deeply. Sometimes that means wrestling with a difficult passage for days. Sometimes it means arguing with an author’s conclusions. Always it means taking books seriously as works of art and ideas.

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