Books

2025: My Year in Books

Two dozen very brief reviews

Dec 31, 2025 • Jamie Paul

This Machine Rages Back: An Interview With Ewan Morrison

Ewan Morrison's For Emma is billed as a sci-fi thriller, but it’s just as much a work of deeply philosophical horror.

Jun 13, 2025 • Jamie Paul

2024: My Year in Books

The good, the bad, and the ugly.

Dec 30, 2024 • Jamie Paul

The Unsettling Reading List

10 books to take you out of your comfort zone

Jun 14, 2024 • Jamie Paul

The Pessimist’s Reading List

10 books to deprogram the most dismal, dour doomer

Mar 22, 2024 • Jamie Paul

2023: My Year in Books

Plus American Dreaming’s top 10 essays of the year

Dec 29, 2023 • Jamie Paul

Stealth Editing a Culture

Sensitivity readers and the future of censorship

Apr 9, 2023 • Jamie Paul

2022: My Year in Books

"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it." — P. J. O'Rourke

Dec 30, 2022 • Jamie Paul

Being a Man Is a Special Needs Condition

A review of Richard Reeves’s “Of Boys and Men.”

Oct 30, 2022 • Jamie Paul

Longshots and the Power of Dreaming Big

I'm not in Zach Graumann's recent book, "Longshot," but it was my story too.

Sep 16, 2022 • Jamie Paul

The Coma Patient's Political Reading List

14 books to bring a time traveler from 2000 up to speed on today's politics.

Jul 8, 2022 • Jamie Paul

How To Read More: Unlock Your Inner Bookworm

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies … The man who never reads lives only one.” — George R. R. Martin

Apr 1, 2022 • Jamie Paul

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