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The Hunger to See Properly

6 January 201910 August 2020
Chris Taylor
White Sands Geoff Dyer 2016 This is a travel book, apparently. It proceeds in gonzo style ...
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Pincher Martin Finds Rockall

Cover of Pincher Martin by William Golding
22 December 201815 August 2019
Chris Taylor
Pincher Martin William Golding 1965   William Golding is known to most only as the ...
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From Hysterical Realism to Austerit...

Covers of White Teeth by Zadie Smith and Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
14 November 201815 August 2019
Chris Taylor
White Teeth Zadie Smith 2000 Home Fire Kamila Shamsie 2017         ...
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Juvenalia: literary works produced ...

Cover of The Satires by Juvenal
20 October 201815 August 2019
Chris Taylor
The Satires Juvenal c. 110-130 In translation by Niall Rudd 1991 Satire is a genre we ...
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In the Borderlands of Language: tra...

Sun glimpsed through gap in fence
7 October 201815 August 2019
Chris Taylor
Signs Preceding the End of the World Yuri Herrera 2009 2015 in translation by Lisa Dillman ...
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Punk's Undead

Punk Rock Jesus Comic Cover
25 September 201815 August 2019
Chris Taylor
Punk Rock Jesus Sean Murphy 2013 The Year’s Work in the Punk Bookshelf or, Lusty ...
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Two or Three are Gathered Together

Merged Narrative Voice
9 September 201815 August 2019
Chris Taylor
There are moments in life in which we are not in ourselves, but out in the midst of ...
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Legends that Eco in Reality

The Book of Legendary Lands
27 August 201815 August 2019
Chris Taylor
The Book of Legendary Lands Umberto Eco 2013 Before setting out on the adventures that ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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