BOOKS

Dante - Divine Comedy

George Orwell - 1984

Christopher Hitchens - Why Orwell Matters

Augustine of Hippo - City of God, Against the Pagans

ESSAYS

• Ethan Iverson at NPR - Stanley Crouch, Towering Jazz Critic, Dead at 74

• Jon Baskin in the New York Review of Books - The Unbearable: Toward an Antifascist Aesthetics

• Jacob Siegel in Tablet Magazine - The New Truth

• Thomas Chatterton Williams in The New York Times Magazine - How Moving to France and Having Children Led a Black American to Rethink Race

• Jonny Thakkar in The Chronicle of Higher Education - Putting the Political Back in Political Correctness

• Anastasia Berg in The Chronicle of Higher Education - Fanning the Flames While the Humanities Burn

• Andrew Kay in The Chronicle Review - Academe’s Extinction Event

• Meghan O’Gieblyn at The Paris Review - Objects of Despair: Drones