Books
A visual archive of what I've read, newest first. Each cover links to a short review on Substack; the two lines beneath are the gist.
2026
The Age of… — Eric Hobsbawm
His four-volume history of the long nineteenth century and after: Revolution, Capital, Empire, Extremes.
The Great Philosophers — Bryan Magee
An introduction to Western philosophy through dialogues with leading philosophers — based on the BBC Television Series.
Reasons and Persons
Reasons and Persons — Derek Parfit
On self-defeating theories, personal identity, and what matters in survival.
Hume: An Intellectual Biography
James A. Harris on Hume the man of letters — the philosophy read through the whole life and work.
Evolution's Witness
Ivan R. Schwab on how eyes evolved — the long, strange engineering history of sight.
To Explain the World
Steven Weinberg on the discovery of modern science — a physicist's history of how we learned to explain.