Category: Books
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What I’ve been reading (August/September 2025)
Founders, writers and San Francisco in the 90s with Jessica Livingston and Dave Eggers (plus the 80s with Mitch Kapor)
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What I’ve been reading (June/July 2025)
It’s Asian Alienation Month with Yoko Tawada (Japan/Germany), Han Kang (South Korea) and Ocean Vuong (Vietnam/USA), with a brief French detour facilitated by Catherine Deneuve
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What I’ve been reading (in early 2025)
Celebrating Fitzcarraldo Editions and 100 years of The Magic Mountain with Olga Tokarczuk, Colm Tóibín and Thomas Mann (duh)
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What I’ve been reading in April 2021
Cal Newport on the Hyperactive Hive Mind, with a sidebar on Fred Brooks and the Mythical Man-Month
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What I’ve been reading in March 2021
Margarette Lincoln on the hip baristas in London of the 17th century
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What I’ve been Reading in February 2021
Abortive reads with Paul Morely (too much rock criticisims) and with Houellebecq (too much provocation)
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What I’ve been reading (January 2021)
Reckoning with imperial pasts (with Priya Satia) and with my own so-called immigration background (with me)
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What I’ve been reading (December 2020)
Wagnerism fallout: Classics by Joseph Conrad and Willa Cather
Salt Mines 