Ok, so in my library this week:

The Permanent Tax Revolt: How the Property Tax Transformed American Politics by Isaac William Martin Martin explains the phenomenon of the property tax and how it came to symbolize gummint money grabs. Replacing a copy that a student wandered off with.

How To Write a Sentence: and How to Read One by Stanley Fish Stanley Fish tries to throw down with E.B. White. Will lose in the long term.

The Word From Paris: Essays on the Modern French Thinkers by John Sturrock. Sturrock’s collected essays from the Times Literary Supplement and the London Review of Books. So far, so brilliant. We’re on Sartre.