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Library

My Kindle highlights along with original essays that respond to them

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The Essays
Michel Montaigne
456 highlights
4
On Essays
Thomas Karshan and Kathryn Murphy
134 highlights
2
History of Western Philosophy
Bertrand Russell
143 highlights
2
Montaigne
Stefan Zweig
114 highlights
2
The Western Canon
Harold Bloom
109 highlights
2
The Sovereignty of Good
Iris Murdoch
70 highlights
1
The Orthodox Way
Kallistos Ware
99 highlights
1
The Essential Odyssey
Homer
48 highlights
1
Nineteenth-Century American Poetry
Various and William Spengemann
41 highlights
1
Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke and M. D. Herter Norton
33 highlights
The Book of Disquiet
Fernando Pessoa
379 highlights
On Politics
Alan Ryan
209 highlights
The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
177 highlights
A New History of Western Philosophy
Anthony Kenny
169 highlights
Democracy in America
Alexis de Tocqueville
111 highlights
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Joan Didion
87 highlights
Franny and Zooey
J.D. Salinger
80 highlights
Mapping Media Ecology
Dennis D. Cali
77 highlights
The Hebrew Bible
Robert Alter
69 highlights
Writing to Learn
William Zinsser
60 highlights
The Lessons of History
Will Durant and Ariel Durant
54 highlights
How to Read a Book
Charles Van Doren
53 highlights
The Poetics of Space
Gaston Bachelard
50 highlights
The Innovators
Walter Isaacson
40 highlights
The Bow and the Lyre
Seth Benardete
33 highlights
The Gospels
Sarah Ruden
30 highlights
Interior States
Meghan O'Gieblyn
29 highlights
Plutarch’s Lives
Plutarch
27 highlights
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf and Bluefire Books
25 highlights
Modern Architecture
Kenneth Frampton
21 highlights
The Orthodox Study Bible, eBook
Thomas Nelson
15 highlights
Title Author Essays Clips Latest
A New History of Western Philosophy Anthony Kenny 0 169 Jul 27, 26
Democracy in America Alexis de Tocqueville 0 111 May 23, 26
Franny and Zooey J.D. Salinger 0 80 Apr 11, 26
History of Western Philosophy Bertrand Russell 2 143 May 28, 26
How to Read a Book Charles Van Doren 0 53 May 17, 26
Interior States Meghan O'Gieblyn 0 29 Jul 22, 26
Letters to a Young Poet Rainer Maria Rilke and M. D. Herter Norton 1 33 Jun 2, 26
Mapping Media Ecology Dennis D. Cali 0 77 Aug 1, 26
Modern Architecture Kenneth Frampton 0 21 Jun 3, 26
Montaigne Stefan Zweig 2 114 Apr 5, 26
Nineteenth-Century American Poetry Various and William Spengemann 1 41 Jun 24, 26
On Essays Thomas Karshan and Kathryn Murphy 4 134 Aug 4, 26
On Politics Alan Ryan 0 209 Jun 28, 26
Plutarch’s Lives Plutarch 0 27 May 19, 26
Slouching Towards Bethlehem Joan Didion 0 87 May 31, 26
The Book of Disquiet Fernando Pessoa 0 379 Jan 10, 26
The Bow and the Lyre Seth Benardete 0 33 Aug 2, 26
The Essays Michel Montaigne 6 456 Jul 31, 26
The Essential Odyssey Homer 1 48 Jul 20, 26
The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson 0 177 Aug 9, 26
The Gospels Sarah Ruden 0 30 Aug 7, 26
The Hebrew Bible Robert Alter 0 69 Aug 6, 26
The Innovators Walter Isaacson 0 40 Jun 30, 26
The Lessons of History Will Durant and Ariel Durant 0 54 Jul 13, 26
The Orthodox Study Bible, eBook Thomas Nelson 0 15 Aug 7, 26
The Orthodox Way Kallistos Ware 1 99 Apr 20, 26
The Poetics of Space Gaston Bachelard 0 50 Jun 8, 26
The Sovereignty of Good Iris Murdoch 2 70 Jun 28, 26
The Western Canon Harold Bloom 2 109 Jun 24, 26
Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf and Bluefire Books 0 25 Aug 4, 26
Writing to Learn William Zinsser 0 60 Jul 5, 26

Currently Reading

Nineteenth-Century American Poetry William C. Spengemann (ed.) Introduction 28 pp June 2026
Nineteenth-Century American Poetry William C. Spengemann (ed.) Whitman 28 pp June 2026
The Sovereignty of Good Iris Murdoch The Sovereignty of Good 106 pp June 2026
Essais Michel de Montaigne Essais – Vol. III 195 pp June 2026
A New History of Western Philosophy Anthony Kenny Augustine, Maimonides, 12th-Century Renaissance 88 pp July 2026
Essays Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays – Vol. I 170 pp August 2026
The Bible The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apoc… The Gospel of Mark 145 pp August 2026
How to Read a Book Mortimer J. Adler How to Read a Book 221 pp August 2026
Ficciones Jorge Luis Borges Ficciones 64 pp June 2026
The Western Canon Harold Bloom Woolf 25 pp July 2026
Modern Architecture Kenneth Frampton Ch 1-4 (Sullivan, Wright, Gaudi) 28 pp July 2026
On Politics Alan Ryan American Founding 42 pp July 2026
The Innovators Walter Isaacson The Computer 46 pp July 2026
The Glorious American Essay Phillip Lopate Essays 1–4 35 pp July 2026
The Western Canon Harold Bloom Shakespeare 25 pp August 2026
On Essays Thomas Karshan and Kathryn Murphy (eds.) Montaigne 22 pp August 2026
Leisure: The Basis of Culture Josef Pieper Leisure: The Basis of Culture 130 pp August 2026
The Innovators Walter Isaacson Programming 46 pp August 2026
Mapping Media Ecology Dennis D. Cali What are the Margins of Media Ecology? 24 pp August 2026
Welcome to the Monkey House Kurt Vonnegut Welcome to the Monkey House 168 pp August 2026
The Bible The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apoc… Psalms, Book I 155 pp August 2026
The Bible The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apoc… The Book of Isaiah, Ch. 40–55 130 pp August 2026
A New History of Western Philosophy Anthony Kenny 16th Century, Descartes, Berkeley, Hume, Hegel 88 pp August 2026
The Glorious American Essay Phillip Lopate Essays 5–8 35 pp August 2026

Reading Next

The Western Canon Harold Bloom Samuel Johnson 25 pp September 2026
On Essays Thomas Karshan and Kathryn Murphy (eds.) Borges 22 pp September 2026
On Essays Thomas Karshan and Kathryn Murphy (eds.) Psychoanalysis 22 pp September 2026
On Essays Thomas Karshan and Kathryn Murphy (eds.) Dali and Hybrid 22 pp September 2026
On Politics Alan Ryan Hegel 42 pp September 2026
Dubliners James Joyce Dubliners 111 pp September 2026
Mapping Media Ecology Dennis D. Cali McLuhan 24 pp September 2026
The Bible The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apoc… Genesis 425 pp September 2026
The Bible The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apoc… Psalms, Book IV 75 pp September 2026
Essays Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays – Vol. II 150 pp September 2026
A New History of Western Philosophy Anthony Kenny Bentham, Nietzsche, Peirce, Strawson, Freud, Derrida 88 pp September 2026
The Glorious American Essay Phillip Lopate Essays 9–12 35 pp September 2026
The Closing of the American Mind Allan Bloom The Closing of the American Mind 88 pp September 2026

Past Months

July 2026

On Essays Thomas Karshan and Kathryn Murphy (eds.) Woolf 22 pp July 2026 ✓
Writing to Learn William Zinsser Writing to Learn 220 pp July 2026 ✓
The Lessons of History Will Durant and Ariel Durant Second Half 64 pp July 2026 ✓
Mapping Media Ecology Dennis D. Cali What are the Primary Themes? 24 pp July 2026 ✓
Essays Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays – Nature 115 pp July 2026 ✓

June 2026

The Western Canon Harold Bloom Whitman 25 pp June 2026 ✓
On Essays Thomas Karshan and Kathryn Murphy (eds.) Introduction 22 pp June 2026 ✓
Modern Architecture Kenneth Frampton Part I (Intro) 28 pp June 2026 ✓
On Politics Alan Ryan Rousseau 42 pp June 2026 ✓
The Lessons of History Will Durant and Ariel Durant First Half 64 pp June 2026 ✓
The Innovators Walter Isaacson Intro / Ada 46 pp June 2026 ✓
Mapping Media Ecology Dennis D. Cali What is Media Ecology? 24 pp June 2026 ✓
Letters to a Young Poet Rainer Maria Rilke Letters to a Young Poet 100 pp June 2026 ✓
A New History of Western Philosophy Anthony Kenny Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine 88 pp June 2026 ✓

May 2026

The Western Canon Harold Bloom An Elegy for the Canon 25 pp May 2026 ✓
The Western Canon Harold Bloom Montaigne 25 pp May 2026 ✓
On Politics Alan Ryan Hobbes 42 pp May 2026 ✓
On Politics Alan Ryan Locke 42 pp May 2026 ✓
Montaigne Stefan Zweig Montaigne 162 pp May 2026 ✓
Essais Michel de Montaigne Essais – Vol. I–II 228 pp May 2026 ✓
History of Western Philosophy Bertrand Russell Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Hume: 10-17 68 pp May 2026 ✓
The Orthodox Way Kallistos Ware God as Mystery 30 pp May 2026 ✓
The Orthodox Way Kallistos Ware God as Trinity 30 pp May 2026 ✓
The Orthodox Way Kallistos Ware God as Creator 30 pp May 2026 ✓
Slouching Towards Bethlehem Joan Didion Slouching Towards Bethlehem 242 pp May 2026 ✓
Democracy in America Alexis de Tocqueville Democracy in America 250 pp May 2026 ✓