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Thomas Filbin

Book Review: “On The Marble Cliffs” — History as Dreamscape

Maintaining liberty in the face of totalitarian fantasy calls for vigilance. Ernst Jünger’s cautionary tale may be more resonant now than when it was first published.

By: Thomas Filbin Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Ernst Junger, NYRB Classics, Tess Lewis, Thomas Filbin

Book Review: “Crown & Sceptre” — A Quick Walk Through the British Monarchy

Crown & Sceptre is generally amusing and it has the instructional benefit of helping readers keep the Williams, Henrys, Edwards, and Georges who have occupied the ancient throne straight.

By: Thomas Filbin Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Crown & Sceptre, English kings and queens, Queen Elizabeth, Thomas Filbin, Tracy Borman

Book Review: “Jena 1800” — A Ferocious Hunger for Freedom

Peter Neumann has written a compelling historical study that focuses on the tumultuous concatenation of a number of imaginative and dynamic thinkers.

By: Thomas Filbin Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Jena 1800: The Republic of Free Spirits, Peter Neumann, Thomas Filbin

Book Review: “The Anomaly” — We Know Less Than We Think

The Anomaly is an entertaining philosophical critique, suggesting that nothing is as it seems, knowledge is imperfect, and the human predicament will perhaps always be more inexplicable than we can admit to ourselves.

By: Thomas Filbin Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Adriana Hunter, Herve Le Tellier, Other Press, The Anomaly, Thomas Filbin

Book Review: “Magnetism” — Attraction and Repulsion, the Endless Puzzle

Writer Jacqueline Gay Walley has become adept at probing the unpredictable interaction of self and others, transformations that imprison as well as liberate.

By: Thomas Filbin Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: IML Press., Jacqueline Gay Walley, Magnetism, Thomas Filbin

Book Review: “The Anglo-Saxons” — An Era of Continual Turmoil and Buried Treasures

Medievalist Marc Morris has written an engaging account of turbulent times in a suitable and interesting style.

By: Thomas Filbin Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Marc Morris, The Anglo-Saxons, Thomas Filbin

Book Review: The Threat of Thought — The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle

The pathway to tyranny is paved by encouraging people to believe in the uselessness of science, logic, and expertise.

By: Thomas Filbin Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: David Edmonds, Princeton University Press, The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle, Thomas Filbin, Vienna Circle

Book Review: “I Belong to Vienna” — The Merit of Not Doing the Wrong Thing

The value and virtue of I Belong to Vienna is that it personalizes and humanizes a global reign of terror into an understandable drama.

By: Thomas Filbin Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Alta L. Price, Anna Goldenberg, I Belong to Vienna, New Vessel Press, Thomas Filbin

Book Review: “Animalia” — ‘Taint a Fit World for Man or Beast

Jean-Baptiste Del Amo has written a marvelous novel in the naturalistic mode that explores how the lives of humans and animals are both interdependent and in conflict — it is not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach.

By: Thomas Filbin Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Animalia, Grove-Press, Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, Thomas Filbin

Book Review: “De Gaulle” — An Exemplary View of the Man and His Times

For anyone interested in the man or that era, De Gaulle is indispensable.

By: Thomas Filbin Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: De Gaulle, Europe, France, Julian Jackson, Thomas Filbin

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