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Themes ↦ History

A critical reading list

Books About the Southwest: History, Fiction, and the Stories We Were Never Told

The American Southwest has been mythologized so thoroughly and for so long that the myth has become almost impossible to see around. These books are a corrective.

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 Now I Surrender

My reading notes from this book, gathered across several encounters—ideas that resonated, arguments that stayed with me, moments worth returning to.

Reflections on The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History

My reading notes from this book, gathered across several encounters—ideas that resonated, arguments that stayed with me, moments worth returning to.

Reflections on Hetty: The Genius and Madness of America's First Female Tycoon

What I’ve gathered here are my notes from reading this book—the scenes that resonated, the language that stayed, the feelings that remained after finishing.

A time capsule

Books I Wish I Could Read Again for the First Time

A list of books I'd love to read again for the first time, that didn’t just entertain me, but woke something up too.

Reflections on Last Night in Brooklyn

My reading notes from this book, gathered across several encounters—ideas that resonated, arguments that stayed with me, moments worth returning to.

Reflections on The Feeling of Iron

My reading notes from this book, gathered across several encounters—ideas that resonated, arguments that stayed with me, moments worth returning to.

Reflections on A Peoples History of the United States

Reflections and notes collected from reading this book—what struck me in the moment, what stayed with me over time, what brought me back.

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