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Review: Anthony Domestico on Eleanor Catton
Fun is a serious thing for Eleanor Catton: Novels are meant to give pleasure, and it’s precisely through this pleasure—through their ironies and set…
Mar 18
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Diary: (2) Geoffrey O‘Brien, Arabian Nights, 1934
How long ago was that? Last month? A hundred years? They had walked into a darkened palace for a few hours. Luxurious like the depths of a mystic…
Mar 16
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Diary: (1) Geoffrey O‘Brien, Arabian Nights of 1934
Home was to be escaped from. Some stepped into dark theaters to watch pictures of horses riding across ridges. A lone figure on a mesa peered down…
Mar 14
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Hey Subscribers! Additional discount from Tertulia on our featured books!
Our winter Book Post bookselling partner, the new book-discovery platform Tertulia, which uses reviews and author recommendations to identify new books…
Mar 7
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Notebook: (2) Sensitivity
by Ann Kjellberg, editor We should now be told—post Dahl—which works of the dead have been altered and how. I would also like to see some serious…
Mar 3
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Notebook: (1) Sensitivity
by Ann Kjellberg, editor Unpacking a bit the controversy around so-called “sensitivity readings,” why we preserve what we preserve, and the case of…
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Mar 2
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February 2023
Diary: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, (2) The Politics of Translation
The Bible in Gĩkũyũ, another part of my culture, was a translation of a series of translations, English, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic. Translation…
Feb 26
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Diary: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, (1) The Politics of Translation
In most African countries an officially imposed European language has been adopted as the national language, even though it is spoken by at most 10…
Feb 24
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Book Sketch: Nicholson Baker reads Michael Kimmelman
A special feature for subscribers, in which author Nicholson Baker considers a book that has caught his interest with some quotations and a drawing.
Feb 21
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Review: Colin Thubron on Süleyman the Magnificent
Two new books about the sixteenth-century Turkish sultan Süleyman the Magnificent, whose empire spread from Budapest to the Persian Gulf, illustrate two…
Feb 17
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Notebook: Word Workers
The rise of the flexible job economy meets the hitherto-lonely word-worker, found toiling alone at her desk. Intellectual property protections…
Feb 14
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Review: Michael Idov on John le Carré
“I am distressed to see myself described as ‘the greatest spy novelist of the ‘Cold War era’... it puts me in the past,” said le Carré. One doubts that…
Feb 7
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