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WBH Weekly Digest 2024-01-06: The Color of the Gods

WBH Weekly Digest 2024-01-06: The Color of the Gods

Gemini Destroyer Book ReviewThis is the end. Gemini Outsider was an end. This is the end. The end of the Gemini Man story, the ultimate culmination of everything that happens. Which makes it interesting that the Gemini Man hardly appears in it. We will instead follow a petty criminal, a

WBH Weekly Digest 2023-12-22: All Westerns are Fairy Stories

WBH Weekly Digest 2023-12-22: All Westerns are Fairy Stories

My theme this week is around the true value of the romance. This Twitter thread lays out the mythic reasons why Jack Reacher and Conan are the same character. The mythic resonance goes far beyond their giant, hulking portrayal, as David Carradine's Kung Fu is another representation of

Chesterton: Introduction to the Book of Job

Chesterton: Introduction to the Book of Job

A perhaps unexpected source of my style of book criticism, and how I understand popular adventure stories, can be found in G. K. Chesterton's essay "Introduction to the Book of Job". This is an explicitly theological investigation of one of the most mysterious and allusive books

The Shadow Knows

Linkfest 2022-12-16: Cap-a-pie

S. M. Stirling, using the method of good “hard” science fiction, instructed his readers in the use and value of plate mail in several books. Apenwarr: Systems design explains the world: volume 1 A stellar exposition of systems design in the context of programming. With Both Hands: The Cold Equations

Nancy Goodaim: Space Ranger

With Both Hands Classics: Great Teacher Onizuka

This is the first installment of what I hope to make a regular feature here at With Both Hands, a reflection on a key work of fiction that I find myself returning to again and again that I will call With Both Hands Classics. For this inaugural edition, let’s