Books and posts about colonialism
Armchair Euro Fakeation: A European Reading List for Summer 2026
Twenty books of summer spanning Hungary, Ireland, the Calabrian coast, a Swiss mental institution, wartime Berlin, and a crumbling Tuscan villa. The Europe that didn't make the brochure.
Reflections on How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder
My reading notes from this book, gathered across several encounters—ideas that resonated, arguments that stayed with me, moments worth returning to.
Quick Lit Short and Sweet Reviews, April 2026
Short reviews of six books I read over the last month and a half — Sisters in Yellow, Last Night in Brooklyn, The Witch, Vigil, How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder, and Down Time.
Reflections on Almanac of the Dead
My reading notes from this book, gathered across several encounters—ideas that resonated, arguments that stayed with me, moments worth returning to.
Reflections on Becoming Little Shell A Landless Indian's Journey Home
This page gathers my ongoing engagement with this book—reading notes, marginalia, and reflections written across different moments of return. What’s collected here focuses less on summary and more on what lingered after reading.
Reflections on Cape Fever
Reflections and marginalia from reading this book—what stood out in the moment, what continued to resonate, what demanded rereading.
Reflections on Damnificados
Reading observations and reflections drawn from various encounters with this book, centered on lasting impressions rather than plot recap.
Reflections on Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
Notes from engaging with this book across different readings—the histories that stood out, the perspectives that shifted my thinking, the details that stuck.
Reflections on The French in New Mexico Four Centuries of Explorations Adventure and Influence
These are my reading notes and recurring thoughts—what caught my attention, what I returned to, what continued to resonate after I finished.