In a recent issue of his popular history podcast Hardcore History, Dan Carlin expressed a note of regret regarding the direction that historical scholarship has taken over the last generation or so.  Time was, argues Carlin, that historians were in the Big Picture business: They would study whole periods of human history, cogitate upon them … Continue reading How To Talk About Books You Haven’t Read (2007) By Pierre Bayard – What is not Said Trumps What is not Read