Blogs about Books and literature
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The Neglected Books Page
Where forgotten books are remembered.
By Brad Bigelow. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
The Young Immigrunts, by Ring Lardner (1920) This is a guest post by David Quantick. Covers of the first U.S. editions of Daisy Ashford’s The Young Visiters and Ring Lardner’s The Young Immigrunts. “My parents are both married and ½ of them …
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New Critique
A journal of critical and creative writing.
By Josh Mcloughlin, James Mcloughlin, Daunish Negargar, et al. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
[Essay] Saturn of Suburbia: Cosmophagic Narration in Arlington Park — D. W. White "Cusk is unparalleled in her innovation of narrational modes for accessing the self, and her dexterity is nowhere as accomplished as in the roving narration of Arlington Park, a work of cosmophagic consciousness"
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of Resonance
A sub-continuation of This Space. This space of resonance.
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You are said to be a conservative anarchist. What is conservative about your work? Just open my… You are said to be a conservative anarchist. What is conservative about your work?Just open my books. The grammar is conservative, almost epically so. It comes from distance, as Dante said. In his case, people …
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Peter Harrington Journal
Where rare books live.
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Peter Harrington Christmas Quiz 2024: Answers 1. c – 235 2. a – 1818 (Fun fact – the second edition, published in 1821 was the first to credit Shelley as the author) 3. a – George Orwell 4. c – Agatha …
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Pluralistic
Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period.
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Pluralistic: Nurses whose shitty boss is a shitty app (17 Dec 2024) Today's links Nurses whose shitty boss is a shitty app: "Uber for nurses" is even worse than it sounds. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: …
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The Public Domain Review
Online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas.
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The Color of Memory: Albert Kahn’s Archives of the Planet By the time of Albert Kahn’s death in 1940, the French banker and philanthropist had amassed a collection of more than 72,000 autochrome photographs. Grace Linden explores the Archives de la Planète — his sprawling, …
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Reading Sheffield | Blog
All the books of our lives.
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Pam Gibson’s reading journey Pam was born in 1952 and has lived in Sheffield for 51 years. She was a teacher. Reading has always been extremely important to me, although I cannot remember how I got started or recall …
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Reeding Lessons: the Henry Reed research blog
An armchair attempt to track down and catalog everything ever written by (and about) the poet Henry Reed (1914-1986).
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ResoluteReader
One man's odyssey through the world of books.
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Alex Callinicos - Trotskyism Published in 1990 by the Open University this book on Trotskyism seems a surprisingly choice for academic publishing. The author, Alex Callinicos, is a long standing Marxist and Trotskyist activist in the British Socialist Workers' …
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Shiny New Books
What to Read Next and Why.
By Annabel Gaskell, Harriet Devine. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
Wishing You a Shiny and Happy Christmas! This year, we’ve posted just over 100 reviews and articles, mostly written by our stalwart team of superb reviewers with whom we couldn’t do without. A huge Shiny thank you to all of them. We …
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Staircase Wit
a blog primarily about books.
By Constance. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
The Bletchley Riddle by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin Everyone tells fourteen-year-old Lizzie Novis that her mother was killed in a bombing but she refuses to believe it. Now that Britain is at war with Germany, her American grandmother wants Lizzie to come to …
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The Stone and the Shell
Using large digital libraries to advance literary history.
By Ted Underwood. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Will AI make us overconfident? Like the internet or a magical sidekick, chatbots are reorganizing knowledge to be more interactive and more accessible.
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Tim Boucher
Questionable content, possibly linked.
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Painting With Willow SCARA Robot – Process Notes & Photos Having to type out “Willow SCARA Robot” a number of times for this post made my brain finally collapse those together into a nice name for this machine, “Will Scarlet” (will-scarlet). It seems to fit …
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Time's Flow Stemmed
Wild reading….
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Discarded Treasure Colin Hamilton’s The Discarded is a cunningly built novel, its simplicity on the surface masking the intricate layers beneath. It opens as a quiet tale about a librarian tasked with removing old and unused books …
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Tony's Reading List
Too lazy to be a writer - Too egotistical to be quiet.
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‘Wonderful Fool’ by Shūsaku Endō (Review) A couple of months ago now, I shared a photo online (as you do) of my Shūsaku Endō collection, which at the time stood at eight novels. Of course, the ‘problem’ with such an action …
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Travel Between The Pages
The Intersection of Travel, Books & Art.
By Brian D. Butler. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
A Never Ending Read Did you know that there’s a book no one will ever be able to finish reading in their lifetime, and it only has 10 pages? In 1960, the French writer Raymond Queneau introduced what is …
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The Untranslated
A blog about literature not yet available in English.
By Andrei. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Theodoros by Mircea Cărtărescu Reluctant to wait for the first translations of Mircea Cărtărescu’s latest novel to start coming out in the second half of 2024, I taught myself enough Romanian to read it in the original. This “pseudo-historical …
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Verso
Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world.
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Read what’s on your favourite writers’ bookshelves Want to widen your reading lists in the New Year? Read your favourite authors’ favorite authors. These books will allow you to dive deeper into the politics, histories, and genres you’re already interested in, and …
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Vertigo
Where literature and art intersect, with an emphasis on W.G. Sebald and literature with embedded photographs.
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David Peace’s 1983: “There will be justice and there will be vengeance” “We’re all guilty.” 1983, the final book in David Peace’s Red Riding Quartet, is written in breathless, restless prose that reads almost like shorthand at times. Events happen quickly, characters speak in clipped, enigmatic phrases, …
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A Working Library
A blog about work, reading & technology.
By Mandy Brown. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Living in alignment One of the things that happens during moments of crisis is that people look to existing institutions—whether governments, nonprofits, churches, or the like—for guidance on what to do. Some of these institutions do good work, …