The Restless Classics edition of Middlemarch is richly illustrated by artist Keren Katz, who has rendered Dorothea Brooke and her provincial 1830s world with over two dozen arresting, strikingly modern papercut illustrations.
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Restless Reads Machiavelli this April
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This April, our virtual classics book club is reading Machiavelli’s The Prince and selections from Discourses on Livy, which offer an “astonishingly modern” take on a timeless question: how should a ruler be?
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"It is in such murky waters that Machiavelli still swims, helping us out even now with the necessary language to rationalize the accidental civilian casualties caused when we use remote-controlled drones to assassinate suspected terrorists in foreign lands, not to mention the cumulative collateral damage of our recent wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria."
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