I spoke at our Armistice Day event on Thursday. We did one of these back in 2018, I read an excerpt from Robert Graves’ autobiography Goodbye To All That, and are hoping to do one each year moving forward. I read this Harry Leslie Smith essay about his decision, in his 90s, to no longer wear the poppy.
Read In 2019
The Story Of Crass by George Berger
The Western Canon: The Books & Schools Of The Ages by Harold Bloom
The Stiehl Assassin by Terry Brooks
We Created Chavez: A People's History of the Venezuelan Revolution by George Circcariello-Maher
A Penelopean Politics: Reweaving The Feminine In Homer's Odyssey by Barbara Clayton
Atari To Zelda: Japan's Video Games In Global Contexts by Mia Consalvo
The Odyssey of Political Theory: The Politics of Departure and Return by Patrick J. Deneen
Titan Screwed: Lost Smiles, Stunners, and Screwjobs by James Dixon
I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie by Roger Ebert
K-Punk: The Collected & Unpublished Writing Of Mark Fisher by Mark Fisher
Transformers: Regeneration One Volumes 1-4 by Simon Furman
Soccer In Sun & Shadows by Eduardo Galeano
Radioactive Man: Radioactive Repoository by Matt Groening
GI Joe Volumes 1-33 by Larry Hama
My Hero Academia Volume 1-3 by Kohei Horikoshi
Death Of The Territories: Expansion, Betrayal, and The War That Changed Pro Wrestling Forever by Tim Hornbaker
The New Testament As Literature by Kyle Keefer
Ajax, The Dutch, The War: Football In Europe During The Second World War by Simon Kuper
Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men Volume One by Stan Lee
Kill Shakespeare Volume One by Conor McCreery
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
One Piece Volume One by Eiichiro Oda
Mega Man 3 (Boss Fights) by Salvatore Pane
Football For A Buck: The Crazy Rise & Crazier Demise of the USFL by Jeff Pearlman
Shakespeare and the Middle Ages by Curtis Perry
Electronic Literature by Scott Rettberg
Capitalism: A Ghost Story by Arundhati Roy
Where We Go From Here by Bernie Sanders
Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics by Richard Seymour
Essays by Wallace Shawn
Night Thoughts by Wallace Shawn
1923: A Great Depression Memoir by Harry Leslie Smith
Harry's Last Stand: How The World My Generation Built Is Falling Down and What We Can Do To Save It by Harry Leslie Smith
Love Among The Ruins: A Memoir of Life and Love in Hamburg, 1943 by Harry Leslie Smith
Strike For America: Chicago Teachers Against Austerity by Micah Uetricht
The Unknown Odysseus: Alternate Worlds In Homer's Odyssey by Thomas Van Nortwick
Never Any End In Paris by Enrique Vila-Matas
The Future of Our Schools: Teachers Unions and Social Justice by Lois Weiner
A Politics of Love: A Handbook For A New American Revolution by Marianne Williamson
Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genuis of Dutch Soccer by David Winner