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    Book Tour

    Book Tour is a periodic review by Phil Christman of new titles, each exploring a theme to trace hidden connections among books and writers.

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    Book Tour: Redeeming Abolitionists and Huck Finn

    Phil Christman

    Reviewing The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic, The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots, and...

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    UFO abduction Article

    Book Tour: Flights of Fact or Fiction

    Phil Christman

    What’s the actual deal with UFOs and mystics who flew?

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    Book Tour: The Greatest of These

    Phil Christman

    Is it possible to find a livable relationship with perfectionism?

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    Book Tour: On Being a Good Ancestor

    Phil Christman

    Phil Christman reviews “Survival of the Richest” by Douglas Rushkoff, “The Good Ancestor” by Roman Krznaric, and “What We Owe the Future” by William...

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    Book Tour: Time for an Intervention

    Phil Christman

    In which we consider recent apocalyptic literature by Sheila Heti, Adam Roberts, David Bentley Hart, and Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò.

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    Book Tour: A Leap into the World of Another Mind

    Phil Christman

    Never doubt the wisdom of a Creator who sends us eccentrics like Sun Ra.

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    Book Tour: The Grip of Time

    Phil Christman

    If we’re missing the point of our lives, it’s partly from sheer distraction.

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    Book Tour: Tunnels through the World

    Phil Christman

    Like a person wandering through a strange city, you start to see unexpected connections everywhere.

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    Book Tour: A Translated Being

    Phil Christman

    The languages that splinter and the revolutions that unite, all to unscramble the simplest of ideas.

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    Book Tour: Circles of Knowledge and Ignorance

    Phil Christman

    The impossibility of exhausting the best books of 2020, along with the imperative to try.

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    Book Tour: Leave Those Stones Unturned

    Phil Christman

    Powerful visions of the damage to a person’s character that can result from a too-narrow obsession with uncovering every secret.

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    Book Tour: The Future’s Back

    Phil Christman

    Time Loops in Rick Perlstein’s Reaganland, Louise Erdrich’s The Night Watchman, and Erica Hunt’s Jump the Clock.

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    Book Tour: To Prevent Our Falling into Greater Disasters

    Phil Christman

    Can remembering the past save the present or the future?

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    Book Tour: The Medium Is the Message, Not the Messiah

    Phil Christman

    Conscience and community online and off.

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    Book Tour: Facing Down the Future

    Phil Christman

    Let the time machine run long enough, and you find yourself facing down the same end you sought to avoid.

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