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A Brief, Occasionally Amusing Guide to How American Power Is Supposed to Behave Itself
A Brief, Occasionally Amusing Guide to How American Power Is Supposed to Behave Itself
The United States Constitution is many things, but sleek it is not. It is long, fiddly, sometimes vague, and written by men who used an awful lot of words to... Read more...
Shirley Jackson: The Housewife Unmasked
Shirley Jackson: The Housewife Unmasked
She peered into the smiling face of middle America and saw a mask stitched from fear, cruelty, and madness. The readers of The New Yorker were not expecting “The Lottery”... Read more...
Why I Love My Kindle, Even Though I Still Love Real Books
Why I Love My Kindle, Even Though I Still Love Real Books
The problem announced itself one afternoon when I nearly tripped over a stack of books I had already read. Not books I was reading. Books I had finished, kept, stacked,... Read more...
What John Jay Can Teach Us About Trump’s Expanding Executive Power
What John Jay Can Teach Us About Trump’s Expanding Executive Power
John Jay, America’s first Chief Justice and one of the least sung of the Founding Fathers, was born on this day in 1745. He lacked the operatic flair of Hamilton’s... Read more...
The War on the Invisible: Robert Koch and the Birth of Modern Microbiology
The War on the Invisible: Robert Koch and the Birth of Modern Microbiology
He was a country doctor with the severity of a Prussian officer and the patience of a watchmaker, a man who made invisible enemies visible and forced the world to... Read more...
Ada Lovelace: The Poet Who Programmed the Future
Ada Lovelace: The Poet Who Programmed the Future
Ada Lovelace saw the future of machines long before they existed, and wrote it into being. In an era when women’s intellects were often confined to parlors and social expectations,... Read more...
The Chronicler of American Disquiet: Joan Didion and the Style of Seeing
The Chronicler of American Disquiet: Joan Didion and the Style of Seeing
She saw through America like few others, and wrote it down with the unblinking gaze of a realist and the style of a poet sharpened by loss. Joan Didion wrote... Read more...
Casa Carlini Bestsellers Featured in Sokoni Shop’s Holiday Collection Through 37 Oaks–FedEx E-Commerce Growth Lab
Casa Carlini Bestsellers Featured in Sokoni Shop’s Holiday Collection Through 37 Oaks–FedEx E-Commerce Growth Lab
Casa Carlini is delighted to announce that several of its best-selling titles have been selected for the Sokoni Shop’s Holiday Collection, part of the 37 Oaks–sponsored FedEx E-Commerce Growth Lab.... Read more...
Joseph Conrad
Into the Known Unknown: Joseph Conrad and the Fog of Civilization
He was the novelist who explored the unlit corners of empire and selfhood, and discovered that neither map nor conscience could be fully trusted. Joseph Conrad, born Józef Teodor Konrad... Read more...
The Quiet Power Behind Every Book We Publish
The Quiet Power Behind Every Book We Publish
Whenever we begin a new project at Casa Carlini—a book of poems, a biography, an inquiry into ideas, or a piece of frontline reportage—I’m reminded of how tentative the early... Read more...
Tom Stoppard’s Infinite Jest
Tom Stoppard’s Infinite Jest
Tom Stoppard spent a career proving that intellect needn’t be humorless, nor art allergic to ideas. To sit through a Tom Stoppard play is to have your head spun, and... Read more...
Claude Lévi-Strauss and The Hidden Grammar of Humanity
Claude Lévi-Strauss and The Hidden Grammar of Humanity
He saw in the world’s rituals not exotic curiosities but the universal grammar by which humans make sense of chaos. Claude Lévi-Strauss, the French anthropologist who transformed the study of... Read more...