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The author of this blog is Trevor Pateman. I have purchased all the books reviewed here unless stated otherwise. My own books are cheapest at blackwells.co.uk. I can be found at academia.edu but am not on X and never used Twitter. New July 2026: www.otherpeoplesletters.com where I transcribe and introduce letters I have found outside archives, mostly written 1750-1850

Tuesday, 9 October 2018

Review: Ali Smith, Winter

This is one of those books I picked up from the Waterstones table. I knew the name Ali Smith but had not read any of her work; nor d...

Thursday, 4 October 2018

Review: Jean Baudrillard The System of Objects

This book was published fifty years ago in 1968 as Le Système des Objets. It was a doctoral dissertation, examined by Roland Barthes...

Thursday, 13 September 2018

Review: Jacqueline Yallop, Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves

This is an interesting, well-written book about top end collecting in Victorian England, nicely presented with big print and proper s...

Tuesday, 11 September 2018

A Cognitive Theory of Cultural Change

I am being a bit cheeky. The long academic essay below does not belong here, but I am parking it here on 11 September 2018 as an experimen...

Sunday, 26 August 2018

Review: Kapka Kassabova Border

It’s much easier to read a book about something you already know something about; harder when you are ignorant and so have to simult...

The Return of Radical Philosophy

The following (improved) version was posted on 19 July 2020 and replaces the original 2018 piece: I had a partner who teased me wheneve...

Saturday, 4 August 2018

It's Official: I'm an Author

It's official. I'm an Author. This morning I googled my name (in scare quotes) and there on the right side of the page is a...

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