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The Bookshelf is a monthly newsletter with short, enjoyable essays on books and life. I’m not interested in telling you what you should read. Nor am I necessarily writing critical book reviews in the traditional sense.

Rather, in choosing to reflect on the work of thoughtful, nuanced authors, I’m most interested in the ways their ideas and arguments and all manner of imaginative gifts might resource us—for our own formation, and for our lives in the world. (More on that here.)

Each month, I write about a book I’ve read recently, a book I’m reading now, and a book I might read next. Lo and behold, there are often threads connecting the different books. There’s the occasional subtle Enneagram 9 hot take. There are always Oxford commas.

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