A Reader’s Review 1

March 2024

The Library of Babel

It’s the beginning of this previously announced monthly feature, so the first thing I’ll do is review my plans for it, sure to develop over time. A Reader’s Review is a new, two-part series here on planet Vitruvius.

The first part will be a free post, every four weeks, on Thursdays, titled “A Reader’s Review.” In this monthly review, I’ll offer recommendations of some of the best of what I’ve been reading in periodicals over the past month, in print and online, including Substack. The standards will be idiosyncratic – my intellectual, artistic, or emotional interests and whatever strikes my fancy at a given time. All depending, I’ll provide very brief summary description, some comment, and some striking representative quotation, with links.

I will offer the recommendations in changeable categories, according to what I read that month and what I responded to. I welcome recommendations!

Then, on the Monday after will follow “A Reader’s Review: A Closer Look.” In that pa…