Adam Kotsko (@adamkotsko.bsky.social) Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Hamlet
William ShakespeareAdam Kotsko (@adamkotsko.bsky.social)In the novel Hamlet by William Shakespeare, the character Hamlet reflects on if it is better to be or not to be. He states, "To be or not to be, that is the question" (Shakespeare and Bevington, pg. 1032). Here he is saying he doesn't know if he should be or not be.
Paperback, 2015
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Mason & Dixon
Thomas PynchonAdam Kotsko (@adamkotsko.bsky.social)Idea: Pynchon for Babies! You could do the bananas from Gravity's Rainbow, the meeting with the Founders from Mason & Dixon, the songs from all the books.... Little cardboard chewable books with the highlights of Thomas Pynchon. It would almost make you want to reproduce.
Paperback, 2004
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Four Futures: Life After Capitalism
Peter FraseAdam Kotsko (@adamkotsko.bsky.social)Just sitting down to grade a pile of papers on Peter Frase's novel, Four Futures.
Paperback, 2016
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Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
Cedric J. RobinsonAdam Kotsko (@adamkotsko.bsky.social)Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism turns out not to be the right thing to read in this mood, though to be fair probably nothing is.
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Plays
William ShakespeareAdam Kotsko (@adamkotsko.bsky.social)If there were a new Star Trek series starring William Shatner, who also had major creative input, we'd have a preemptive cringe. I guess because Patrick Stewart acted in Shakespeare plays decades ago, that wouldn't apply to him, even after two garbage seasons.
Paperback, 2010
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The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages
Geraldine HengAdam Kotsko (@adamkotsko.bsky.social)@DavidKaib @PatBlanchfield @zunguzungu @kerim Heng's "The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages" is more readable and refers back to Anidjar -- though her timeframe is pre-Reconquista.
Paperback, 2020
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Antony and Cleopatra: The Novel: (Shakespeare's Classic Play Retold As a Novel)
Thomas FleshAdam Kotsko (@adamkotsko.bsky.social)In the novel Hamlet by William Shakespeare, the character Hamlet reflects on if it is better to be or not to be. He states, "To be or not to be, that is the question" (Shakespeare and Bevington, pg. 1032). Here he is saying he doesn't know if he should be or not be.
Paperback, 2014
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Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally RooneyAdam Kotsko (@adamkotsko.bsky.social)RT @MarikaRose: I wrote something about Sally Rooney’s “Beautiful World, Where Are You” as a reworking of Jane Austen’s "Sense and Sensibil…
Paperback, 2022
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Heart: An American Medical Odyssey
Dick CheneyAdam Kotsko (@adamkotsko.bsky.social)I also seem to remember this time when Dick Cheney, probably one of the top ten greatest criminals alive, got an actual *human* heart transplant, which are much more scarce. Why worry about a pig heart? There are tons of pigs.
Paperback, 2016
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Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution
Wendy BrownAdam Kotsko (@adamkotsko.bsky.social)What's a good critical review of Wendy Brown's Undoing the Demos?
Paperback, 2017
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