Tuesday, 30 July 2019

Notes on Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations

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I’ve been thinking about the topic of cultural change and recently published a  summary  on this Blog (11 September 2018). It ...
Friday, 5 July 2019

Review: Craig Brown, Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret

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Some countries which choose to have a titular, non-executive head of state - the Republic of Ireland, for example - take care to cho...
Saturday, 22 June 2019

Review: Eimear McBride, A Girl is a Half-formed Thing

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In most novels, the author leaves a trace - sometimes a very obvious one - of the imagined reader who has inflected the writing. In ...
Sunday, 16 June 2019

Review: Lionel Trilling, Sincerity and Authenticity

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Leave aside state honours, like knighthoods, and the peak of an academic or artistic career is not a Professorship or even membe...
Sunday, 9 June 2019

Review: Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead

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I bought this book because I had read and enjoyed Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights , reviewed on this Blog on 4 August 2018. In contrast to ...
Tuesday, 4 June 2019

Review: David Rieff, In Praise of Forgetting

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When I saw this book in Blackwell’s Oxford shop during a May 2019 visit, I knew I had to buy it even thoug...
Tuesday, 28 May 2019

Review: John Gray, Seven Types of Atheism

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I don’t want to read this book a second time so this will be a short review. From its title, I expected something more elegant but, ...