Tuesday, 15 January 2019

Review: Sally Rooney, Normal People

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This novel does get a lot better in its final seventy pages, but for a couple of hundred pages it is simply too normal and I did not...
Saturday, 12 January 2019

Review: John le Carre, The Little Drummer Girl

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This is a very long book, 640 pages of reasonably spaced text in my edition. Published in 1983, the story is set within the ongoing ...
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Monday, 31 December 2018

Review: Tiffany Watt Smith, Schadenfreude

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I bought this book on the same visit to Waterstones as yielded the previous book reviewed here, Darren McGarvey’s Poverty Safari. I...

Review: Darren McGarvey, Poverty Safari

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This is a good book which held my attention right through though some of it seems cut and paste from what could have been free-stand...
Thursday, 6 December 2018

Essay:The White Review and The Lottery

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I My local convenience store is always busy, the queue for the check-out snaking back into the aisles. It’s a shop for poor people, of...
Wednesday, 21 November 2018

Review: Anna Burns Milkman

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Now I couldn’t have made it up and you couldn’t have made it up which is two reasons why Milkman ought to have won the Man Booker P...
Saturday, 17 November 2018

Review: Peter Goldie and Elisabeth Schellekens, Philosophy and Conceptual Art

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When I reviewed Sara Baume’s A Line Made By Walking on this blog ( 22 April 2018) it got me thinking again about conceptual art, somethin...