Thursday, December 13, 2018

WHAT TO DO WITH DEAD BODIES?

Thomas W. Laqueur, The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains (Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2015).

Monday, December 10, 2018

Autumn Leaves

INSPECTOR MAIGRET #49

Georges Simenon, Maigret's Failure (Inspector Maigret), translated from the French by William Hobson (New York: Penguin, 2017).

Saturday, December 8, 2018

MARTIN NIEMOLLER

Matthew D. Hockenos, Then They Came For Me: Martin Niemoller, The Pastor Who Defied the Nazis (New York: Basic Books, 2018). From the book jacket:
Whereas previous biographers have portrayed Niemoller as a principled man who was led astray by the Nazis, Hockenos contends that he knew exactly what Hitler stood for, and only gradually and reluctantly shed his right-wing sympathies. In fact, Niemoller's postwar confession represents the start of his long moral journey, not its end. Revealing the challenges and limits human of transformation, Then They Came for Me ultimately forces each of us to ask ourselves, What would I have done?