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November 2022 Reading Roundup

It was an all-fiction month for me in November, involving a 17-year-old sex worker in the US, a novelist seeing her stolen manuscript come to life, a young woman fleeing from London to Jamaica to escape an abusive relationship, and…

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Borges Marathon, Part 11: The Approach to Al-Mu’tasim

Only Borges could get away with writing a book review of a book that doesn't exist.

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Reading Roundup for October 2022

This month, I read a dense Serbian novel, an analysis of capitalism as a snake eating its own tail, and a couple of Elizabeth Strout's latest novels.

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Borges Marathon, Part 10: Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

What would a world with no objective reality look like? How about a language with no nouns? Jorge Luis Borges explores these ideas in a fascinating thought experiment.

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Snow by John Banville: Review

I was surprised by Snow: it's very different from John Banville's usual style. There's some beautiful prose as usual, but in the end it's quite a formulaic detective novel.

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Reading Roundup for September 2022

The month started with my favourite novel of the year and continued to produce excellent reads—read on for my recommendations.

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The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid: Book Review

What would happen if white people started turning brown, one by one? Mohsin Hamid explores the question in his latest novel.

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August 2022 Reading Roundup

My reading in August was dominated by listening to six books by the same author on a long, long road trip across Europe.

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Freedom and Death by Nikos Kazantzakis: Book Review

"Captain Wildboar was his apt nickname in Megalokastro. With his sudden rages, his deep, dark, round eyes, his short, stubborn neck and that jutting fang, the heavy, broad-boned man was really like a wild boar, rearing for the spring."

Andrew Blackman

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November 2022 Reading Roundup

Borges Marathon, Part 11: The Approach to Al-Mu’tasim

Reading Roundup for October 2022

Borges Marathon, Part 10: Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

Snow by John Banville: Review

Reading Roundup for September 2022

The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid: Book Review

August 2022 Reading Roundup

Freedom and Death by Nikos Kazantzakis: Book Review