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Book Reviews German Matters politics

A uniquely personal review of a key Historical Text

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Post date December 13, 2023
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#History Revolutionary Spring 1848-1849

Book Reviews German Matters Psychoanalysis

Leon’s Lectures on Lacan

The Psychoanalytic Act in Five Acts: The Direction of Treatment for Lacan

Tags Interpretation, Lacan, Psychoanalysis, Transference

Book Reviews Classics Literature Psychoanalysis

Primo Levi’s Final Message

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Post date November 13, 2023
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#NonFicNov Primo Levi

Tags Primo Levi, Survivor's Guilt, TheThe Drowned and The Savedand

Sunbirds (2023), by Mirandi Riwoe

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Post date October 10, 2023
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Sunbirds (2023), by Mirandi Riwoe

Tags East Asia, Historical Novel, Singapore

Book Reviews Literature

The Idealist (2023), by Nicholas José

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Post date September 30, 2023
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The Idealist (2023), by Nicholas Jose

Tags Australia, Diplomacy, East Timor, Idealism

Book Reviews Literature

Czech Literature, Democracy Now and the Art of Writing

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Post date September 26, 2023
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The Attempt (2013), by Magdaléna Platzová, translated by Alex Zucker

Tags Czech Literature, Democracy Now

Book Reviews Literature

Deborah Levy’s Creative Space

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Post date September 24, 2023
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Real Estate by Deborah Levy

Tags A Room of One's Own, Deborah Levy

Book Reviews Literature

The Birthday Party- but not by Pinter but Mauvinger

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Post date September 3, 2023
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Woman Running in the Mountains (Review)

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Post date August 29, 2023
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Woman Running in the Mountains by Yūko Tsushima (tr. Geraldine Harcourt)

Book Reviews Literature

Rose Tremain and Merivel’s Mid-Life Crisis

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Post date August 16, 2023
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Merivel: A Man of His Time (2012, Restoration #2), by Rose Tremain