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• Limpid and Beautiful Prose

  I thought it would be a contrast after C. While still sick with the flu I reached down to the ever growing pile beside my bed and drew up Charlotte Wood's The... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2010 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Reading C

  A bout of the flu having laid me low, I at last got to read Tom McCarthy’s C. Susan Wyndham, literary editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, has called it ‘cool... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2010 BOOKS, CULTURE

• No Mystique

  For many reasons I keep coming back to this observation of Gabriel Josipovici (from his Preface to The Lessons of Modernism and other essays, originally... Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2010 BOOKS, CULTURE