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Prospect Magazine (www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/) is a British current affairs magazine.
In their 2023 Summer edition they have published a list of books that their writers and columnists would recommend as good books to read on your summer holiday. In the absence of Prospect's presence in the Fediverse, I hope they won't mind me reproducing that list here.
Gutenberg Parenthesis by Jeff Jarvis
3 stars
The Gutenberg Parenthesis traces the epoch of print from its fateful beginnings to our digital present – and draws out …
... and the rest of the series, too!
The World and All That It Holds by Aleksandar Hemon
5 stars
As the Archduke Franz Ferdinand arrives in Sarajevo one June day in 1914, Rafael Pinto is busy crushing herbs and …
For Whom the Bell Tolls (War Promo) by Ernest Hemingway
4 stars
High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert …
Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag
Regarding the Pain of Others is a 2003 book-length essay by Susan Sontag, which was nominated for the National Book …
A Hacker's Mind by Bruce Schneier
A hack is any means of subverting a system’s rules in unintended ways. The tax code isn’t computer code, but …
Over five novels and two collections of stories Tessa Hadley has earned a reputation as a fiction writer of remarkable …
Agostino by Alberto Moravia (New York Review of Books Classics)
Thirteen-year-old Agostino is spending the summer at a Tuscan seaside resort with his beautiful widowed mother. When she takes up …
