RIP David Carr (1956-2015)
Good Reads
An Unlikely Love Story. The Best I Have Read In Years
Jesse Kornbluth reviews Seth Greenland’s novel, “I Regret Everything”.
How This Sixty-Two-Year-Old Man Became a Young Mom
“Our shared experience of vulnerability erases the age and gender differences between the young mothers and me.”
They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45
Jesse Kornbluth reviews a story on interviews with Germans from the WWII era.
Kafka’s Other Trial: The Letters to Felice
Jesse Kornbluth reviews Elias Canetti’s book on the life of a deeply divided man.
Rogue Male
We fear the unaffiliated terrorist, the lone wolf who looks like us, lives in our neighborhoods and waits for an opportunity to kill us. It was simpler in the old days, and simplest of all in “Rogue Male,” the story of a man who decides to kill the biggest target in the world. Jesse Kornbluth reviews.
Setting the Table: Hospitality Is When the Other Person Is On Your Side
Jesse Kornbluth reviews Danny Meyer’s new book and has one bit of advice for you: “Eat his words.”
From Datcher Dreams to His Americus
Holiday reading for the winter, torched and charred.
A Pop-Up Book by the King of Multi-Dimensions: M.C. Escher
When the world becomes a little too real, Jesse Kornbluth suggests: “Let’s have some unreality. Some beauty. Some genius.”
Is The Handmaid’s Tale a Cautionary Tale for Our Times?
Jesse Kornbluth reviews Margret Atwood’s famous book.
Wabi-Sabi: For Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
Wabi-sabi isn’t anything new — it dates all the way back to the 12th century. But with the help of Leonard Koren’s book, Jesse Kornbluth demonstrates its uses in the world today.
Oldman’s Brave New World of Wine: Pleasure, Value, and Adventure Beyond Wine’s Usual Suspects
Looking to amp up your wine knowledge? Jesse Kornbluth has just the book for you.
He’s Probably My Favorite Author. His Bestselling Book? The Razor’s Edge
Jesse Kornbluth reviews W. Somerset Maugham’s novel.
Fifth Business
Enough reality for one week. Fiction beckons…
Boots on the Ground? This Question Takes Me Back to 2003, and ‘Stuff Happens’
Jesse Kornbluth reviews David Hare’s “Stuff Happens”.
Storytelling, Culture, and Revolution
Stories, whether fictitious or true, spring forth from our values, believes, perceptions, dreams, imaginations or wishes, all of which are bound to our life experiences, which in turn are fundamentally shaped by our particular environment. Raoul Wieland shares a few of these stories.