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The Bughouse: The Poetry, Politics, and Madness of Ezra Pound by Daniel Swift 

 3.5/5 The name Ezra Pound brings to my mind mixed feelings of a character both brilliant and unsavory, but I really knew very little about him. I have vague memories of reading a bit of the Cantos as an undergraduate, but not a great reader of poetry, I haven’t attempted it again since. In

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Please Look After Mom by Shin Kyung-sook translated by Chi-young Kim

 3/5 This well-crafted novel revolving around the disappearance of an elderly woman at a busy train station in Seoul peels back the layers of her life and those of her family members as they search for her. It’s a compelling but sad book that looks at incidents that occurred from childhood on from the

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Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Time of Change by Leonard Mlodinow

 4/5 I enjoyed Mlodinow’s earlier books Subliminal and The Drunkard’s Walk and am pleased to say that this book is in much the same vein and did not disappoint. The main thesis is that humans have a proclivity for elastic or flexible, non-analytical thinking, which especially important in the modern, rapidly changing world. Elastic

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