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The author of this blog is Trevor Pateman. I have purchased all the books reviewed here except a very few noted as sent to me. My own books are cheapest at blackwells.co.uk and are usually on Amazon. I can be found at academia.edu but do not have an X account and never used Twitter; that is another Trevor Pateman.

Thursday, 24 April 2014

Film Review: NOAH (Daniel Aronofsky)

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It's some time since I went to the cinema and even longer since I went to an Odeon in Leicester Square. It didn't take me long to re...
Tuesday, 18 March 2014

Essay: Some Doubts about Universities and the Humanities

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I have always had my doubts about universities. If you take the long view, they have rarely encouraged scientific enquiry or tolerance of...
Sunday, 16 March 2014

Review: Ferdinand von Schirach, The Collini Case

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I read this short and big-print novel at a single sitting, so that’s a recommendation. Yet the style is set at a sort of degree zero of...

Review: John Cornwell, The Dark Box

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I find it quite easy to believe in Freedom of Conscience and quite hard to go on believing in Freedom of Religion. The latter now...
Tuesday, 11 March 2014

Review: Sarah Bakewell, How to Live or a Life of Montaigne

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I read this book after giving up on Robert Heilbroner’s The Worldly Philosophers, which I found intolerable. Heilbroner’s leading id...
Saturday, 1 March 2014

Review: Caroline Walton and Ivan Petrov, Smashed in the USSR

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This book is a testimony to the strength of the human body. Ivan Petrov lived to the age of 67 (1934 - 2001) despite a brutal upbringin...
Wednesday, 19 February 2014

Review: Shereen El Feki, Sex and the Citadel

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This is a book of many surprises. Not the least the fact that someone exists to write it. Towards the end of the book, El Feki defines ...
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