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The author of this blog is Trevor Pateman. I have purchased all the books reviewed here unless stated otherwise. My own books are cheapest at blackwells.co.uk. I can be found at academia.edu but am not on X and never used Twitter. New July 2026: www.otherpeoplesletters.com where I transcribe and introduce letters I have found outside archives, mostly written 1750-1850

Sunday, 31 July 2022

Editorial Oversight at Oxford University Press

Clue: The Emperor's New Clothes

Tuesday, 3 May 2022

Review: Gary Gerstle The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order

This is an excellent book. It starts from what seems to be a very simple and even simplified model of American economic and political hist...

Saturday, 30 April 2022

Review: Peter Salmon An Event Perhaps A Biography of Jacques Derrida

I am one of those people who would rather read a book about Jacques Derrida than read a book by Derrida. This one, though very well-written ...

Sunday, 13 March 2022

Review: Toril Moi, Revolution of the Ordinary

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

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.

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

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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