Disorganised reading list for 2025 with opinions sometimes attached.
Read
Plato, The Last Days of Socrates, Penguin Classics (tr. Christopher Rowe)
Homer, The Odyssey, Penguin Classics (tr. E.V. Rieu)
M.I. Finley, The World of Odysseus, Pimlico
Reading
Dante, The Divine Comedy, Penguin Clasics (tr. Robin Kirkpatrick)
Emmanuel Grimaud, Bollywood Film Studio, CNRS editions
To-read
Eric Hayot, The Elements of Academic Style
Ahmed Paul Keeler, Rethinking Islam & the West
Paul Valery, Eupalinos, Gallimard
Maurice Blanchot, L’espace litteraire, Gallimard
Roland Barthes, Mythologies, Points
W.G. Sebald, The Rings of Saturn
Dabbling in
Leszek Kolakowski, Is God Happy? (Selected Essays), Penguin
Lionel Trilling, The moral obligation to be intelligent