When will you start?
I have a number of reviews in draft form already, but no timetable whatsoever for posting. I simply grabbed ‘muster’, a nice short subdomain, the day it occurred to me.
What's the plan?
Suppose we're motivated to read up on a region or religion because it's in the news or because it influenced the development of our culture. Where do we start?
This newsletter will be an experiment combining reading lists and book reviews. The reading lists are inspired by Oxford Bibliographies. The book reviews will include summaries, excerpts, and analysis, as well as links to relevant further reading.
Expect mostly history, international relations, religion. Some of it will be relevant to current affairs, other parts not. For example, someday I intend to post about Andrei Znamenski's Shamanism in Siberia, even though almost none of us will find it relevant to anything. (This book contains the story of the most memorable act of futile resistance to dictatorship that I've ever read.)
Why not use GoodReads?
I want to massage the formatting until I like it. For me, GoodReads isn’t reader-friendly.
Who is the target audience?
Non-specialists who make some effort.
