The Story of Art
1950 · 688 pages
There is no such thing as Art, Gombrich begins, only artists. From cave paintings to Picasso he explains what each was trying to solve, and you come out able to see it.
★ 7.2
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
1950 · 171 pages
Four children evacuated from wartime London find a wardrobe opening onto snow, a lamppost, and a land where a witch has made it always winter. Lewis buried the Christian story inside an adventure.
★ 6.9
Discourse on Colonialism
1950 · 102 pages
Colonization degrades the colonizer into a brute, Césaire argues, and Hitler applied to Europe the methods empire reserved for everyone else. It turned the civilizing mission into a confession of barbarism.
★ 6.8
The Labyrinth of Solitude
1950 · 398 pages
Mexicans wear masks, Paz argues, because the Conquest left them sons of a violated mother, heirs to two pasts they refuse to join. Mexico has quarreled with these essays for seventy years.
★ 6.5
I, Robot
1950 · 224 pages
Robots run on three laws: never harm a human, obey orders, survive. Asimov's stories hunt the cracks in those rules, and roboticists still argue about the Three Laws when drafting AI ethics.
★ 6.3