Wednesday, 22 February 2023

Adolfo Kaminsky by Sarah Kaminsky

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  On the internet there are numerous photographs which testify to the love Sarah Kaminsky felt for her father, Adolfo Kaminsky, who died in ...
Wednesday, 18 January 2023

Do Good Books Get Published More by Luck than Judgment?

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I read two or three books each week, cover to cover, of which maybe half are recently published and mostly from mainstream, major publishers...
Tuesday, 17 January 2023

Running Scared: Dashes, Asterisks, Scare Quotes, Bunny Ears Quotes, Sensitivity Readers

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  Editors and publishers may not have lists but they know a word that they don’t want to see in print when they see it. One dodge employed...
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