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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. I can be contacted at patemantrevor at gmail. com

Wednesday, 21 August 2019

The Publisher’s Bad Blurb Prize

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The Literary Review makes an annual Bad Sex Award for really, really badly written sex scenes in novels which may have other merits but...
Friday, 9 August 2019

Essay: Google Assisted Prose

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When I googled the title for this essay on 9 August 2019, Google replied: No results found for  "google assisted prose" . ...
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 ...
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