Charles Wing-Uexküll Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Charles Wing-Uexküll

@RareMaleHarpy @BenzDh @worthwhilebooks Faerie Queene (1596) by Edmund Spenser, the court poet patronized by Queen Elizabeth. England was no empire when Beowulf was written & the poem certainly doesn’t have an ‘imperial ideology’ in the way that the Aeneid does. On the other hand FQ takes up the IQ (Irish question).

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@feelsdesperate Vietnam: The Necessary War by Michael Lind

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@NE0GRIT since you have read Anne Carson’s Sappho translation and Catullus, you must get Carson’s Nox

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@BenjaminDeRebel this is actually Gerhard Richter, piece called ‘December’ from 1989

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reading von Manstein’s _Lost Victories_ after Thomas777 recommended in a recent podcast incredible book & should be more widely known

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@thuleanrevenant @tombticket Remember that female reviewers hate when men write about their own experience of the quotidian. Last October Laura Miller took Cormac McCarthy’s _The Passenger_ to the woodshed for “extensive conversations about machinery with other men”… 😱

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@After__History placing the Holocaust in the context of Soviet state violence—which eliminated entire categories of political undesirables, millions at a time—is mainstream history, not ‘revisionism’. Timothy Snyder’s _Bloodlands_ makes this clear.

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@WolfgangHutter2 That point is expanded upon in _The Habsburg Empire: A New History_ by Pieter Judson (Harvard UP, 2018)… the wretched of the earth call upon the name of the Emperor for protection & revenge against their traditional rulers

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Apparently the rightist German historian Ernst Nolte wrote a book called "The Stranger's Guide for Buenos Aires"... what did he mean by this??

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@oldbooksguy I find myself returning most often to: Power of Silence by Cardinal Sarah; Introduction to the Devout Life by Francis de Sales; Padre Pio’s Spiritual Direction for Every Day; The Way by Josemaria Escriva