Wednesday, 10 February 2021

Review: Philip Stephens, Britain Alone

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  This is a fluent narrative of the United Kingdom’s external political relations with the USA and the European Union from the Suez debacl...
Sunday, 7 February 2021

Review: Martha C. Nussbaum & Saul Levmore, Aging Thoughtfully

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  I’d like to think I am ageing thoughtfully so I bought this book, not least because in the past I have read and admired the work of the ...
Saturday, 30 January 2021

On the Use and Mention of Words

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  Students of linguistics, literature and philosophy sooner or later get the idea that there is an important distinction between the use o...
Thursday, 21 January 2021

The Manufacturing Interest: Booker Prize Shortlisted Books 2020

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  I bought five of the six as a bundle on Amazon, not with any great enthusiasm - more with a view to updating myself on what kinds of books...
Friday, 1 January 2021

Happy Reading in 2021: An Advertisement for My Own Books

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Wednesday, 28 October 2020

Review: Richard Scholar, Émigrés. French Words That Turned English

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  I saw this book advertised and bought it for two very local and immediate reasons. I had been writing about emigration and exile and f...
Sunday, 6 September 2020

Reclaim Her Name? George Eliot and Middlemarch

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  I had been meaning to re-read Middlemarch and promoted it to the top of the waiting list after reading that a well-known alcoholic drinks ...