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Writing on books I have read, and essays on subjects I find interesting. Newest first. About me.
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Book notes · 2 books Steve Coll's two-volume history of America in Afghanistan
Two Pulitzer-winning volumes on how a superpower stumbled into, and never quite won, its longest war.
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Book notes · 3 books Walter Isaacson's biographies of genius
Three biographies of people who changed how the rest of us live: Jobs, Leonardo, and the invention of CRISPR.
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Book notes · 2 books Where to start with le Carré's George Smiley
The patient mole hunt everyone should read, and the quieter, smaller mystery that came before it.
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Book notes · 3 books William Dalrymple, three ways into India's buried history
Delhi as it is now, as it ended, and the country as it was becoming. One writer, three very different books.