Well-Read (or Trying)
Josh TolleA journey in reading. One book a week.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 43 | Subscribers | Read | wellreadortrying.substack.com |
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Why Cleverness Triumphs Over Reason
When you feel depressed at seeing smug, self-satisfied hot takes on the key issues hog people’s attention, Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) offers the balm of explanation:
Best Reads of 2025
I don’t read a lot of recently published books. There are too many from decades, centuries, and millennia past that I still need to read. So I give you, like I did last year, my best reads of 2025, rather than the best books. Of the eighty-...
The Scholar Who Left: Gershom Scholem and the Illusions of Jewish Germany
In a villa on the shore of Lake Starnberg, southwest of Munich, a whimsical polymath plays host to a self-serious 22-year-old doctoral student. The student has gotten hold of a membership form for the Johann Albert Widmanstetter Society for...
Bialik: The Rashi of Zionism
One hundred thousand people attended Hayim Nahman Bialik’s funeral in Tel Aviv in 1934. The crowd included a third of the Jewish population of pre-state Israel. Who was the 61-year-old poet who had touched all these lives? The question is n...
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A reader, a writer, a translator. I'm rediscovering the power of the classics, one book, one review at a time.
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