The Critics' Picks: A Year in Reading
Briefly

Amid all the hard sells and hot takes, these books provided some necessary counterprogramming. Their authors are more interested in opening up new ways of understanding than in telling people what to do.
As I read Nikhil Krishnan's A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy and War at Oxford, 1900-1960, I wondered how he would pull it off. Here was a scholar, determined to bring to life a school of thought that has largely been forgotten in the grand narrative of Oxford's history.
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