Outside of a Dog

Where it's not too dark to read

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Recent Books

Becky Chambers: A Psalm for the Wild-Built (2021, Tordotcom)

A Psalm for the Wild-Built

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It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again; centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend.

One day, the life of a tea monk is upended by …

Cormac McCarthy: The Road (Paperback, 2011, Picador)

The Road

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Utku Baris Balaban: Industrial Islamism (2025, University of California Press) No rating

Industrial Islamism

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Industrial Islamism analyzes the relationship, since the end of the Cold War, between the rise of political Islamism in Muslim-majority countries and the rise of a new global "middle class" of industrial entrepreneurs. Challenging common assumptions, Utku Balaban questions the idea that political Islamism represents the antithesis of Western modernity …