Wednesday, 30 November 2022

David Graeber and David Wengrow The Dawn of Everything A New History of Humanity

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      Ten years ago I reviewed David Graeber’s Debt on this site and declared it my Book of the Year, though that is a fact I had forgo...
Tuesday, 1 November 2022

A Private Spy The Letters of John le Carré edited by Tim Cornwell

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  Browsing a provincial auction catalogue, some years ago, I noticed for sale an autograph letter signed David Cornwell on notepaper heade...
Friday, 28 October 2022

Copyright in the Estate of William Shakespeare

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  The Works of William Shakespeare remain part of living cultures at least partly because there is no Estate of William Shakespeare. You c...
Sunday, 31 July 2022

Editorial Oversight at Oxford University Press

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  Clue: The Emperor's New Clothes
Tuesday, 3 May 2022

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

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  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

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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

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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...