Sunday, 13 March 2022

Review: Toril Moi, Revolution of the Ordinary

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  There are so many universities in the world that we have only estimates of their number; an App can’t track them because some don’t call t...
Thursday, 24 February 2022

Review: Rita Felski Hooked

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  I was introduced to Rita Felski’s work in 2020 when I consulted what in England we call an Early Career Academic about an essay on Lolita ...
Tuesday, 22 February 2022

Benjamin J B Lipscomb The Women are Up to Something.

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  This book is better than its rather desperate American titling - it's published by Oxford University Press America rather than OUP ...
Friday, 4 February 2022

Review: Jean Rhys Good Morning, Midnight

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  I think of Jean Rhys as an Expressionist writer whose short sentences are like bold brushstrokes in startling, unpredictable colours. It’s...
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Wednesday, 19 January 2022

Review: Neil Levy Bad Beliefs. Why They Happen to Good People

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  This is a very interesting, very readable book not least because the author, though presenting himself as a professional philosopher, dr...
Tuesday, 18 January 2022

Review: Michael Morris Real Likenesses

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    Back in 1975 a philosopher, Colin Radford, presented a paper to the Aristotelian Society in London with the title, “How Can We Be ...
Saturday, 15 January 2022

Review: Abigail Dean, Girl A

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  I nearly didn’t buy this book from the Waterstones table. It was suffering from Sandwich Board failure. If one shopkeeper puts out a sandw...