Journeys | Jody Ferguson Blog

I recently re-read the novel The Wild Palms by William Faulkner, which he published in 1939.

Reading great novels teaches us so much about humans, with all of the accompanying beauty and warts. History books do the same...

In her book The Opium Wars British academic Julia Lovell describes both the historical and the contemporary Chinese distrust of the West...

The year 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the conclusion of the Second World War.

The focus of Gwynne’s book is Quanah Parker, the last wartime Comanche chief, who ironically was the son of Cynthia Parker...

This friendship between Hemingway and Dos Passos is documented nicely in the book The Ambulance Drivers by James McGrath Morris.

The subtitle of the book tells you much more about the story Anderson is trying to relate to the reader: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly...

Before reading The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, I had vaguely heard of Epicurus...

The Israeli scholar Yuval Harari takes on the most basic, yet difficult subjects in his fascinating history Sapiens.

Mudbound takes on a variety of salient topics, utilizing a number of unique voices.

Stephen Kiernan’s book The Hummingbird tells the story of Deborah, a dedicated hospice nurse who is struggling...

For college football fans and history buffs, I highly recommend Terry Frei’s book Third Down and a War to Go.

The Big Rock Candy Mountain is a book set in the Mountain West and Canada in the first three decades of the 20th century.

It was with this in mind and to try to better understand the situation, that I took up William Dalrymple’s history Return of a King.

Jennifer Egan’s novel Manhattan Beach is one of the best-written books I have read recently. The language is rich, and the nuanced story...