July 2020 - Andrew Blackman

Reading

Children of the Cave: A Fascinating Finnish Novel of Ideas

In Children of the Cave, Finnish writer Virve Sammalkorpi imagines an encounter between a group of explorers and some strange creatures living in a…

Thinking

No, I Don’t Have the Bandwidth Right Now

Something is very wrong with the English language. People have started asking me if I have the “bandwidth” to work on new…

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Andrew Blackman on Books I read in June 2026: “I am thinking of trying another, but am also generally curious about why a Nobel Prize winner (and the first…” Jul 30, 18:16
Andrew Blackman on Natives of My Person by George Lamming: “Nice! I haven’t read The Emigrants but would like to. It’s great that you’re in tune with the bookshop’s ordering…” Jul 30, 17:48
Marcie on Natives of My Person by George Lamming: “The Emigrants and In the Castle of My Skin, which I super pleased about, having read the last bit of…” Jul 29, 18:15
Marcie on Books I read in June 2026: “That’s an interesting question; my guess is that she’s not very well known in either place now. Ten or fiteen…” Jul 29, 17:56
Andrew Blackman on The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid: Book Review: “That would be an interesting premise! Whiteness relies so much on having an “other” to define itself against, so as…” Jul 28, 14:51