Lucid guide to understanding modern culture
I don’t often say it, but this book was so good I read it once, then listened to it as an audiobook! Carl Trueman, an Englishman teaching in the US, has written an extraordinary overview of the past 300 hundred years of Western culture, to help explain how the sexual revolution came to pass and how transgenderism can be understood philosophically within that story. I am a sucker for grand vistas when they help me to investigate the minutiae of an event, and that he admirably achieves.
‘Rising scream’ for people and planet
More important than “a book that changed me” is a book that is changing me. This one certainly is.
A window into Winton’s soul
On the opening page of The Boy Behind the Curtain Tim Winton makes a confession. At 13 he would stand behind a Terylene curtain in a fibro house in Campbell Road, Albany, and aim his father’s .22 Lithgow at passers-by.
