Books I Read March 2nd, 2026

My bread came out badly this week, and I didn't really like any of the books I read. Also, the world is ending.

Lonliness by Clark E. Moustakas – Existential pablum..

The Negro Grandsons of Vercingetorix by Alain Mabanckou – A woman documents the division and collapse of her country, family.

Doomi Golo—The Hidden Notebooks by Boubacar Boris Diop – An aging elder recounts his personal and national history in a series of interwoven, surrealistic texts.

Study for Obedience by Sara Bernstein – A miserable Jewess returns to a country which is not Germany to suffer a psychological breakdown, contemplate the ubiquitous guilt of man. I think there's something tacky about exploring the tragedy of your grandsires as if it was your own, and tend to be hyper-sensitive at the attempts of Semites to co-opt the moral force of the shoa for contemporary works of fiction.