Shabbat Reading: Roberto Calsasso's The Celestial Hunter

#whatireadovershabbat Roberto Calasso's The Celestial Hunter, translated by Richard Dixon (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020)

The Celestial Hunter is another entry in Calasso’s enchanting counterhistory of the modern world. As in previous books, he dives into a body of myth—in this case, the mythology of hunting from the Paleolithic era to the Information Age—to piece together aspects of our lives that lie just beneath society’s facade. Calasso reveals that Homo sapiens’ evolutionary leap from fruit-eaters to hunters continues to reverberate hundreds of thousands of years later. The reverberations are everywhere, once you know where to look. In this dazzling book, Calasso directs our gaze, pointing us to the mysteries within.