Tuesday, 27 February 2018

Essay: Are You An Academic In A Hurry? Be Prepared to Wait Twenty Five Years

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Academic work is a slow business, academic publishing was always crushingly slow, and the reception of academic work even slower. The chro...
Monday, 5 February 2018

Review Philippe Sands, East West Street

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I don’t usually provide quotable quotes about books I read but I have to say of this one that it is an extraordinary achievement, ...
Sunday, 28 January 2018

The Awfulness of Modern Book Design and Production

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It’s very hard to sell books, I’m told, and that’s one reason why publishers try to keep them cheap. Modern printing technology has slashe...
Saturday, 27 January 2018

Review: Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

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This is a long, leisurely book, with a single narrator who does not have the benefit of a university education and who sustains a str...
Wednesday, 10 January 2018

My Waterstones Page - Visit to Order Online!

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Trevor Pateman Added to basket ADD TO BASKET Key Concepts: A Guide to Aesthetics, Criticism and the Arts in...
Tuesday, 9 January 2018

Review: Anne Applebaum, Red Famine

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Anne Applebaum’s becomes a very readable book and impresses as very well documented and argued, but it starts badly. The bad start has...
Saturday, 6 January 2018

Review: Thomas Hardy The Mayor of Casterbridge

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I recall as a teenager sitting hunched, gripped and tearful over The Mayor of Casterbridge . When I got to Henchard’s Testament on th...