Old Possum's Book Review

Motto: "I read bad books so you won't need to." The blog contains my reviews of books, mostly on foreign policy, history and national security.

Saturday, October 4, 2025

Alexander Etkind. Nature's Evil.

›
     George Soros created a plethora of his NGOs to grow new neo-colonial elites of the post-Communist world. His strategy worked in some s...
Saturday, August 23, 2025

Alexander Karp. The Technological Republic. Hard Power, Soft Beliefs and the Future of the West.

›
 A famed German education obviously greatly suffered lately. Gone is the gymnast and sometime Foreign Minister of the Bundesrepublik, Annale...

Edwin Frank. Stranger than Fiction. Lives of Twentieth-Century Novel.

›
    This is a brilliant book, enlightened by the author's impeccable literary taste. One of a few books I read sequentially, from the be...
Saturday, August 9, 2025

Morgan Falconer. How to be Avant-Garde.

›
 The book must be titled "How to be a self-centric prick". Obviously, high art always attracted prima donnas, eccentrics, etc., bu...
Saturday, June 14, 2025

Tricia Romano. The Freaks Came out to Write.

›
      This is a book about the times when America was great. New York was a dirty, decaying rathole, but the people there carried the idea o...
›
Home
View web version

About Me

Alex Bliokh (A. S. Bliokh)
Alex Bliokh (Alexander Semionovich) is a retired engineer from USSR missile program biding his time to Alzcheimer's at one of upstate New York nursing homes near Corning. I invite you to visit my other blogs.
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger.