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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, 8 June 2017

Review: Graham Swift, Mothering Sunday

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Click on Image to Magnify I read this novella - 35 000 words – and thought it was beautifully conceived and crafted, one of the bes...
Monday, 5 June 2017

An Intellectual Biography?

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A lphabetical Thinking I have been organising my thoughts alphabetically for many years. Emptying out a cupboard, I found a sheet of fool...
Sunday, 28 May 2017

Review: China Mieville, October

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Click on Image to Magnify I sense that in Russia, the hundredth anniversary of 1917 is a bit of an embarrassment. The current gover...
Tuesday, 23 May 2017

Review: Matisse in the Studio, edited by Ellen McBreen and Helen Burnham

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Click on Image to Magnify Everything we write is marked by the time and place in which we write, sometimes very lisibly so as in th...
Saturday, 6 May 2017

Review: Tim Marshall, Worth Dying For. The Power and Politics of Flags

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 Click on Image to Magnify Back on 11 August 2016, I reviewed here Tim Marshall’s Prisoners of Geography which I felt had a lot of z...
Monday, 1 May 2017

Review: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

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Click on Image to Magnify Mr Dostoyevsky has written a long book – 650 pages in my Penguin Classics edition – but it is still a gr...
Monday, 17 April 2017

Review: Martha Nussbaum, Anger and Forgiveness

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I knew Martha Nussbaum’s name but had never studied her work until I came across, by chance, an old essay of hers which offers a wond...
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