Saturday, 12 June 2021

Review: Duncan Minshull (Ed.), Sauntering: Writers Walk Europe

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  I bought this because I  read a favourable review and because I sometimes write essays which describe a walk. The book was a pleasure to...
Thursday, 6 May 2021

Review: Karl Schlögel, The Scent of Empires

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    Timothy Snyder   provided a blurb for the publisher of this book and that caused me to buy it, since Snyder’s own work is very, very i...
Wednesday, 17 March 2021

Review: Hazel V. Carby, Imperial Intimacies

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  There was a period when genealogists were specialists in pedigree and I guess there are still those who want to know where they stand in t...
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...