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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.

Monday, 13 January 2020

Review essay: Roger Scruton on Sexual Desire

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The English philosopher Roger Scruton has died at the age of 75. I always thought his books on art and aesthetics very good and assigned th...
Sunday, 12 January 2020

Review: Jon Day, Homing

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This is a book where the fascination is in the detail. But to make detail fascinating requires a great deal of sense and skill. With...
Sunday, 5 January 2020

Review: Bram Stoker, Dracula

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The story usually told is that the idea for Penguin Books came to Allen Lane when searching a 1930s railway station bookstall for so...
Wednesday, 1 January 2020

Advertisement: Trevor Pateman, Between Remembering and Forgetting

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 Click on Image to Magnify A linked set of twenty six essays exploring topics around individual and collective memory. There are di...
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...
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