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Posted on March 28, 2019

“If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water”

The Roughly Daily blog links to a piece on an aquarium boom apparently taking place in America. : Aquariums are currently all the rage. Of the forty-one American aquariums accredited…

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Posted on December 20, 2018

“No poor people please, I write for the New Yorker” – Daniel Kalder on Lawrence Wright in the TLS

Daniel Kalder  had a review in the TLS a while back of Lawrence Wright’s God Save Texas. The full text is on Kalder’s own website. Entertainingly, while the review itself…

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Posted on November 11, 2018November 11, 2018

An Italian poem of World War I – “Last Rite”, Clemente Rebora

The current TLS has a piece by NS Thompson on Italian poets of the First World War, along with translations by Thompson of some of their works. Futurism, which glorified…

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Posted on July 14, 2018

“Cocks exist for the hen, but hens exist for the cock” – is there such thing as self – parody? with Bernard Richards, Max Beerbohm, Algernon Swinburne, Henry Reed – and Tennyson, Eliot and Kipling

This letter from Bernard Richards in the 29th June TLS caught my eye: Sir, – Francis Hope spoke in his reprinted review of Nabokov’s Ada (From the Archives, June 22) of authors writing…

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Posted on April 7, 2018April 7, 2018

The past and future of handwriting- David Rundle in the TLS

In the current TLS there is an excellent review by David Rundle of two recent books on handwriting. Anyone who knows me, or more specifically had had to read my…

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Posted on August 3, 2017

Orcs and Oulipo – TLS piece by Peter Hoskin on Fighting Fantasy

There’s an affectionate piece on Fighting Fantasy books on the TLS website by Peter Hoskin (I am not sure if “TLS Online” means it will not appear in the print…

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Posted on August 2, 2017

“the overbearing mother, the emotional repression, the teasing sort-of girlfriend, the constant guilt and fear ” – draft review of The Cure, Rachel Genn, TLS, 2011

The TLS ultimately used a much edited version of this review of a book I evidently didn’t like. Perhaps I was uncomfortable with the line “having sex with Séamus in…

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Posted on July 20, 2017July 20, 2017

Piece on cardiac surgery in Times Literary Supplement

Originally posted on A Medical Education:
In the current TLS I have a review of two books on cardiac surgery. One is Stephen Westaby’s  memoir of his career, the other is Thomas…

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