Thursday, October 25, 2007

The Black Girl in Search of God and Some Lesser tales by George Bernard Shaw

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The title piece in this anthology is a parable on the nature of religious belief. When first published in 1932 it caused quite a stir and I ...
Monday, October 22, 2007

Up and Down in Toledo, the expected and the surprising

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I have wanted to visit Toledo for at least forty years and for one particular reason, being the canvases of Domenicos Theotokopoulos, or El ...

A review of Black Snow by Mikhail Bulgakov

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Black Snow is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov. This apparent platitude is full of contradiction. The book is perhaps better described as an auto...
Saturday, October 13, 2007

A review of The Black Book by Orhan Pamuk

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I have visited Turkey, but not Istanbul. It’s one of those iconic places that keeps cropping up in travel plans, but then gets overlooked, p...
Monday, October 1, 2007

Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler

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Anne Tyler’s Breathing Lessons is a giant of a book, a giant because of the way in which it gently wraps you into its characters’ world and ...
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Sukarno, A Political Biography by J. D. Legge: nationalism revisited.

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I don’t read a lot of history, contemporary or otherwise, and when I do, it is usually in the area of political economy. In recent years, fo...
Sunday, September 23, 2007

A memory of Kyoto

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It’s often that chance encounters, the unplanned events, linger, long after the excursions and the sights of a particular trip have faded. I...