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Showing posts with label usa. Show all posts
Saturday, October 19, 2024

Paquito D'Rivera and Aaron Copland under Jost Vicent in Adda, Alicante

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Apparently, this was a program of two halves. Meaningless phrases are always the best openings… On the face of it, the first half of this co...
Sunday, September 29, 2024

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

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This is a masterpiece of story-telling. It is short - about 130 pages - and tells the tale of a man living an isolated life in New England. ...
Thursday, May 30, 2024

The Work Of Nations by Robert B Reich

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The Work Of Nations by Robert B Reich was published in 1991, written, therefore, prior to that year. In the book, the author describes the r...
Tuesday, March 26, 2024

The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen

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I was unaware of Veblen’s ideas until a recent edition of In Our Time on BBC Radio 4 devoted an hour of discussion to his life and work. So ...
Tuesday, October 10, 2023

United States - Essays 1952-1992 by Gore Vidal.

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I remember watching Gore Vidal on television, usually on one of those talk shows he seems to view with contempt. He seemed to be a living op...
Friday, May 13, 2022

Sideshow by William Shawcross

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  When we consider Nixon, Kissinger and the Destruction of Cambodia, Sideshow by William Shawcross is probably the main event, if not the la...
Tuesday, February 22, 2022

The Crack-Up with Other Pieces and Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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I doubt that F. Scott Fitzgerald intended that The Crack-Up with Other Pieces and Stories should ever be published, let alone read as a sing...
Monday, December 6, 2021

Quichotte by Salman Rushdie

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  I heard an author interviewed on the radio. He described a character he had invented, a fellow called Quichotte (that’s key-shot, by the w...
Monday, February 1, 2021

Quichotte by Salman Rushdie

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I heard an author interviewed on the radio. He described a character he had invented, a fellow called Quichotte (that’s key-shot, by the way...
Sunday, July 19, 2020

4-3-2-1 by Paul Auster

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4-3-2-1 in not one book. It is four. And they are in order, 4-3-2-1. Its title, incidentally, could not be 1-2-3-4 for reasons the reader w...
Thursday, February 20, 2014

Stoner by John Williams

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To reveal that “he dies in the end” gives no more away about the plot of Stoner by John Williams than the revelation that “he’s born in the ...
Friday, November 9, 2012

Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver’s novel Prodigal Summer is eventually both surprising and deceptive. It is surprising because of the twists and turns of ...
Monday, January 16, 2012

An evaluation framework - Economic Policy and Human Rights by Radhika Balakrishnan and Diane Elson

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Economic Policy and Human Rights by Radhika Balakrishnan and Diane Elson apparently declares an intention to compare and contrast fiscal and...
Monday, January 9, 2012

Another Side of the Slave Trade - Rough Crossings by Simon Schama

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No short review of Rough Crossings by Simon Schama could begin to do it justice. It is far too big a project, far too significant an achieve...
Saturday, July 17, 2010

Burr by Gore Vidal

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The passage of time edits history. The roughness and corners of detail wear away under the constant erosion of recall and interpretation. Ev...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Hotel de Dream by Edmund White

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In Hotel de Dream, Edmund White presents a fellow writer, a fellow-countryman called Stephen Crane. Stephen is well connected, but ill-equip...