Category Archives: B - READING

READINGDECEMBER 2023

25274. (Jeff Lemire) Tales from the Farm [graph­ic novel]
25275. (Joseph Camp­bell) The Flight of the Wild Gander
25276. (Trevor Watkins) Archi­tec­ture and “The­atres of Mem­o­ry” in the Neolith­ic of 
. . . . . South­west Asia [arti­cle]
25277. (William Cranston Law­ton) The Suc­ces­sors of Homer
25278. (Tulasi Srini­vas) Won­der­ing About Won­der [arti­cle]
25279. (Chad Orzel) How to Teach Rel­a­tiv­i­ty to Your Dog
25280. (Justin A. Hol­comb, et al) Frost Action dur­ing the Younger Dryas Inferred from 
. . . . . Soil Micro­mor­phol­o­gy at Conn­ley Cave 5, Ore­gon [arti­cle]
25281. [2] (Alan Moore & Dave Gib­bons) Watch­men #4 [comix]
25282. (Bahat­tin Çelik & Orhan Ayaz) Rise of Göbek­li Tepe Cul­ture: “Hunt­ing Ground
. . . . . Econ­o­my” and the Role of Spec­u­la­tive “Knowl­edge” [arti­cle]
25283. (John Dry­den) Mar­riage à la Mode [play]

READINGNOVEMBER 2023

25266. (Zephyr Tea­chout) Cor­rup­tion in Amer­i­ca from Ben­jamin Franklin’s Snuff Box to 
. . . . . Cit­i­zens United
25267. (Alisha B. Adams) We’re All In This Togeth­er: Access­ing the Maternal-infant 
. . . . . Rela­tion­ship in Pre­his­toric Viet­nam [arti­cle]
25268. (Jacob Hol­land Lulewicz) Amer­i­c­as, North: Indige­nous Polit­i­cal Institutions 
. . . . . [arti­cle]
25269. (Heather Cox Richard­son) Wound­ed Knee ― Par­ty Pol­i­tics and the Road to an 
. . . . . Amer­i­can Massacre
25270. (Daniel Lev­itin) A Field Guide to Lies
25271. (Nile Green) Mat­teo Ric­ci as an Islam­i­cate Infor­mant. Two Moments of 
. . . . . Con­nec­tion in the Per­sian After­lives of a Latin Account [arti­cle]
25272. (Daniel T. Potts) Uruk and the Ori­gins of the Sacred Econ­o­my [arti­cle]
25273. (Chad Oliv­er) Shad­ows in the Sun

READINGOCTOBER 2023

25257. (Samir Baig) Why We Don’t Care… and How to Get Us To [arti­cle]
25258. (Maria Isabel Puer­ta Rivera) Demo­c­ra­t­ic Back­slid­ing and Autocratization: 
. . . . . The Polit­i­cal Effects of the COVID-19 Pan­dem­ic in Nicaragua and Venuzuela 
25259. (Iain Reid) I’m Think­ing of End­ing Things
25260. (Mar­tin Bru­sis) Con­di­tions and Con­se­quences of Pop­ulism and Democratic 
. . . . . Backsliding
25261. (John Lacy) The Old Troop; or, Mon­sieur Rag­gou [play]
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READINGSEPTEMBER 2023

25245. (Robert S. Allen) His Majesty’s Indi­an Allies ― British Indi­an Pol­i­cy in the 
. . . . . the Defence of Cana­da 1774–1815
25246. (Paul Howe) Erod­ing Norms and Demo­c­ra­t­ic Decon­sol­i­da­tion [arti­cle]
25247. (Ceren Civlan) A Brief Overview of the Effects of Mediter­ranean Pol­i­tics and 
. . . . . Ottoman-Haps­burg Con­flict on the Mod­ern Euro­pean Iden­ti­ty [arti­cle]
25248. (Jeff Good­ell) The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
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READINGAUGUST 2023

25227. (Bri­an Klaas) The Despot’s Accom­plice ― How the West is Aid­ing and 
. . . . . Abet­ting the Decline of Democracy
25228. (K. P. Dial, A. M. Heers & T. R. Dial) Onto­genic and Evolutionary 
. . . . . Trans­for­ma­tions: Eco­log­i­cal Sig­nif­i­cance of Rudi­men­ta­ry Structures 
. . . . . [arti­cle]
25229. (Stephen M. Gatesy & David M. Baier) Skele­tons in Motion: An Animator’s 
. . . . . Per­spec­tive on Ver­te­brate Evo­lu­tion [arti­cle]
25230. (Daniel Z. Lieber­man & Michael E. Long) The Mol­e­cule of More
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READINGJULY 2023

25218. (Sher­man Hol­lar) Ancient Egypt
25219. (John Flana­gan) Ranger’s Appren­tice: The Ruins of Gorlan
25220. (Ben­jamin D. San­ter, et al) Excep­tion­al Stratos­pher­ic Con­tri­bu­tion to Human 
. . . . . Fin­ger On Atmos­pher­ic Tem­per­a­ture [arti­cle]
25221. (Rebec­ca Gib­lin & Cory Doc­torow) Choke­point Cap­i­tal­ism ― How Big Tech and
. . . . . Big Con­tent Cap­tured Cre­ative Labor Mar­kets and How We’ll Win Them Back
25222. (L. Sprague de Camp) The Great Fetish
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READINGJUNE 2023

25173. (Abdi Nazemi­an) Like a Love Story
25174. (John Thor­ley) Athen­ian Democracy
25175. (Matthew Edge­worth, et al) The Strati­graph­ic Basis of the Anthro­pocene Event 
. . . . . [arti­cle]
(Stephen Lea­cock) Too Much Col­lege, or, Edu­ca­tion Eat­ing Up Life:
. . . . 25176. [2] (Stephen Lea­cock) Edu­ca­tion Eat­ing Up Life [arti­cle]
. . . . 25177. (Stephen Lea­cock) The Machine at Work [arti­cle]
. . . . 25178. (Stephen Lea­cock) What Good Is Latin? [arti­cle]
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READINGMAY 2023

25143. (Jean-Paul Gagnon & Emi­ly Beau­soleil) West By Not West: Comparative 
. . . . . Demo­c­ra­t­ic The­o­ry is Con­stel­la­tion­al [arti­cle]
25144. (Damon Knight) The Oth­er Foot [nov­el ver­sion; short sto­ry ver­sion read at 14153]
25145. (Fred­er­ic Charles Schaf­fer & Jean-Paul Gagnon) The Hege­mon­ic Con­cept of 
. . . . . Democ­ra­cy has Dis­solved, What Hap­pens Now? [arti­cle]
(Stephanie Dal­ley ‑ed. & –tr.) Myths From Mesopotamia:
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READINGAPRIL 2023

25131. (Dmit­ry Dubrovsky) Escape from Free­dom. The Russ­ian Aca­d­e­m­ic Community 
. . . . . and the Prob­lem of Aca­d­e­m­ic Righst and Free­doms [arti­cle]
25132. (David K. Wright) Impact of Farm­ing on African Land­scapes [arti­cle]
25133. (Joseph Kel­ly) Amer­i­ca’s Longest Siege ― Charleston, Slav­ery, and the Slow 
. . . . . March to Civ­il War
25134. (Clau­dia Chang, Sergei S. Ivanov & Per­ry A. Tourtel­lotte) Land­scape and 
. . . . . Set­tle­ment over 4 Mil­len­nia on the South Side of Lake Issyk Kul, Kyrgysztan: 
. . . . . Pre­lim­i­nary Results of Sur­vey Research in 2019–2021 [arti­cle]
25135. (Mat­ti Charl­ton) Dendrome
25136. (Meh­di Hasan) Win Every Argument
25137. (Pavla Peter­le Udi­vič & Miran Erič) Log­boat from Ižan­s­ka I {SI-81} from 
. . . . . Ljubl­jana: New Evi­dence for Iron Age Trans­porta­tion on the Ljubljana 
. . . . . Marsh­es, Slove­nia [arti­cle]
25138. (James Ker-Lind­say & Miku­las Fab­ry) Suc­ces­sion and State Creation
25139. (Tris­tan Carter) Obsid­i­an Con­sump­tion in the Late Pleis­tocene ― Early 
. . . . . Holocene Aegean: Con­tex­tu­al­is­ing New Data from Meolith­ic Crete [arti­cle]
25140. (Michael R. Waters, Thomas W. Stafford Jr. & David L. Carl­son) The Age of 
. . . . . Clo­vis ― 13,050 to 12,750 cal yr B.P. [arti­cle]
25141. (Mike Park­er Pear­son, et al) The Stone­henge River­side Project: Explor­ing the 
. . . . . Neolith­ic Land­scape of Stone­henge [arti­cle]
25142. (Tomas Lars­son & Stithorn Thananithi­chot) Who Votes for Virtue? Reli­gion and 
. . . . . Par­ty Choice in Thai­land’s 2019 Elec­tion [arti­cle]

READINGMARCH 2023

25104. (Kirsti Mäki­nen) The Kale­vala: Tales of Mag­ic and Adventure 
. . . . . [ill. Pirkko-Liisa Suro­je­gin] [tr. Kaa­ri­na Brooks] [prose re-telling of 
. . . . . Elias Lön­nrot’s Kale­vala with verse samples] 
. . . . . [see oth­er trans­la­tions: Bosley at 27 & 8563; Kir­by at 391; 
. . . . . Friberg at 18426]
25105. (Mat­ti Charl­ton) The Dark Woods ― A Very Light Bed­time Children’s 
. . . . . Story 
(William M. Brei­d­ing ‑ed.) Portable Stor­age Nine:
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