Recent additions to the library

New additions to the bookcase that may be of interest to you:

• White Noise – Don DeLillo
• Selected Short Stories – Balzac
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead – Tom Stoppard
• Starship Troopers – Robert A. Heinlein (far more thought provoking than the film)
• Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
• Orientalism – Edward Said
• Reflections on the Revolution in France – Edmund Burke
• The Poverty of Historicism – Karl Popper
• Can the subaltern speak? – Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Special mention to Perry Anderson’s three–part series on Europe in the LRB. The series clocks in at 45,000 words, and I’m only a third the way through. Recommended, if only for his erudition.

Now if only books could be read as fast as they could be bought.