Holdings 1:1
Helicopters, fascists, extreme reading, and more
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Birds of paradise, Night Flight edition
Perhaps Saint-Exupéry's novel about air mail in South America will help us grasp the reason for LAPD's helicopter division
Birds of paradise
Why fill the skies with cops in helicopters? Perhaps literature can help us understand.
Literature and fascism in Italy, pt. 3
Lessons in authoritarianism from the narrator of Ortese‘s 1965 novel
What is extreme reading?
Beyond pleasure and professionals
Forever Valley
Redonnet's novel about a sixteen-year-old digging holes for the dead is a signature occasion for serious reading
Literature and fascism in Italy, pt. 2
Calvino's first novel suggests the authoritarian aesthetic is not just about which stories get told, but how
Charif Majdalani and writing history
Majdalani's multi-generational saga also serves as a poignant reflection on writing history
Literature and fascism in Italy, pt. 1
Bontempelli's fairy tale isn't just about a boy, a mirror, and a chess set. It also captures the anxiety of an upper class eager for something like fascism
This is The Book Hold
Do you like to read hard? Then you might be in the right place.