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Readers may have noticed something new in our recent issues: a little section up front we call “Editor’s Bookshelf.” It’s a brief list of new or forthcoming books that we think will most appeal to bibliophiles. Here’s more information on the five featured in our current issue, as well as three “bonus” picks that only came to our attention after we went to press.
Alan Jacobs takes a professorial approach in
Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader’s Guide to a More Tranquil Mind and argues that we ought to read more old books (no argument here). But he also wants us to refocus our attention on authors like Milton, Wharton, or Jefferson all flawed in their own ways, all perhaps subject to cancel culture and find a way to reengage beyond the banal good/bad duality.