Sunday, 24 October 2021

Review: Kathleen Stock, Material Girls. Why Reality Matters for Feminism.

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    This is an excellent book: clear, thorough, convincing and, in context, brave: Kathleen Stock is currently a Professor of Philosophy...
Monday, 4 October 2021

Review: Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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  My last review was of Rudyard Kipling’s Kim (1901) and I have now gone on to read an obvious Compare & Contrast novel, Mark Twain’s T...
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Tuesday, 21 September 2021

Review: Rudyard Kipling, Kim

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This is a wonderful novel. I had never troubled with Kipling before and doubt I could quote accurately a single line of his verse. So I ca...
Monday, 30 August 2021

Afghanistan? Reviews of several books

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If you type Afghanistan into the search bar above you will be taken to half a dozen long reviews of serious  books about the War in Afghani...
Wednesday, 25 August 2021

Review: Amia Srinivasan The Right to Sex

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  I was looking forward to the book, having read the essay which gives the book its title and which was  published in the London Review of...
Monday, 16 August 2021

Review: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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  Reading a novel, you usually assume a stable text. But - consulting the notes to this edition in the course of reading - it became clear t...
Friday, 13 August 2021

Review: G K Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday

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  To put it briefly, No. Late in life, G K Chesterton drew attention to the sub-title of this novel, A Nightmare, and it’s true that its ...