https://jonathanmckay.com/tags/classics/Recent content in Classics on Jonathan McKayHugoen-usSat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-origin-of-species/Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-origin-of-species/This book will make you smarter. Regardless of evolution's implications in biology, its implications for politics and economics make this book worthhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/east-of-eden/Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/east-of-eden/Hits like a hammer, but jumps the shark on the 3rd generation.https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/of-mice-and-men/Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/of-mice-and-men/Last week was at my college alma mater, and I was surprised at the memories that came back to me. The campus was permeated with fear and self criticismhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/moby-dick/Tue, 03 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/moby-dick/A book about the culture. How it is created, the meaning we give it, the supposed truths that such culture creates. There is definitely meat on the boneshttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/much-ado-about-nothing/Fri, 19 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/much-ado-about-nothing/aka: the dangers of attending a masquerade ball and credulity of accusations of adultery.https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/to-kill-a-mockingbird/Sat, 08 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/to-kill-a-mockingbird/A great American novel I missed when too busy reading Dragonlance growing up, now it's time to catch up. For the first 2/3 of the book, I wasn't sure whathttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-left-hand-of-darkness/Tue, 02 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-left-hand-of-darkness/A book more of ideas than plot, I liked the premise and enjoyed Le Guin's curious explorations of gender (akin to Ancillary Mercy) rather thanhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/meditations/Fri, 15 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/meditations/A masterclass in equanimity. This was never meant to be a book, so I read it as series of 'notes to self' on how to live life, and strive for happinesshttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/atlas-shrugged/Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/atlas-shrugged/Seriously, Ayn Rand needed an editor. We get to watch an interesting struggle take place in the first 300 pages, only to watch it repeated three more