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The Lamenting of a Wounded Otter

12 August 201815 August 2019
Chris Taylor
At Swim-Two-Birds Flann O’Brien 1939 To do justice to a book which itself has no truck with antiquated approaches to the ... READ MORE
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ISIS: Mediaeval or Modern?

5 August 201825 March 2020
Chris Taylor
Age of Anger: A History of the Present Pankaj Mishra 2017 The Mediaeval There is a tendency to denounce the brutal violence ... READ MORE
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Isherwood's Life in a Day

29 July 201814 September 2019
Chris Taylor
A Single Man Christopher Isherwood 1964 There are only 152 pages of generously spaced print to my edition of this novel, and ... READ MORE
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A Bazaar of Bizarrity

22 July 201810 August 2020
Chris Taylor
Bizarre Books Russell Ash and Brian Lake 2000 (Revised and updated after the 1998 edition) Well, this is all very silly. It ... READ MORE
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The Poetry of Chance: Mallarmé and...

15 July 20187 July 2020
Chris Taylor
The Number and the Siren: A Decoding of Mallarmé’s Coup de dés Quentin Meillassoux 2012 The Number and the Siren is unlike ... READ MORE
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Why Call the Working Class White?

8 July 201815 August 2019
Chris Taylor
The Likes of Us: A Biography of the White Working Class Michael Collins 2004 The working class of the united Kingdom in all ... READ MORE
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Soseki and the Art of Nothing Happe...

1 July 201815 August 2019
Chris Taylor
The Gate Natsume Soseki 1910 2013 in translation by William Sibley Soseki (1867 – 1916) is Japan’s favourite ... READ MORE
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A Whale of a Time

24 June 201815 August 2019
Chris Taylor
The Melancholy of Resistance László Krasznahorkai 1989 1998 in translation by George Szirtes Procrustes welcomed footsore ... READ MORE
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Rebel Welsh Terrorists of the Swing...

17 June 201815 August 2019
Chris Taylor
Hands Off Wales: Nationhood and Militancy Wyn Thomas 2013 In the mid-twentieth century European colonialism was in retreat ... READ MORE
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Writing the Beautiful Game

10 June 201815 August 2019
Chris Taylor
Home and Away Karl Ove Knausgaard and Fredrik Ekelund 2016 (2014 in Norwegian) As I prepare to wallow luxuriously in the ... READ MORE
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