Tuesday, 31 December 2019

Review: Emma Dabiri, Don't Touch My Hair

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Hard on the heels of Coca Cola, international conglomerate publishers have discovered diversity. It’s partly a function of modern bo...
Sunday, 27 October 2019

Review: Stefan Collini, The Nostalgic Imagination

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Reading this book, I had the sense of someone successfully making a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. Stefan Collini is a conscientious...
Friday, 11 October 2019

Essay: Thirty Eight Minutes with Olga Tokarczuk

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Olga Tokarczuk, two of whose books have been reviewed previously on this Blog in their English translations published by Fitzcarraldo, has...
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...