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Ivan Vasil'evich meniaet professiiu/Ivan Vasil'evich Changes Profession
This week, there’s no need for my Good and Bad selves to duke it out. For once, I’m in complete agreement with myself, and what I want to tell you is this: Run, don’t walk, to your … more →
Vulpes Libris
Ivan Vasil'evich meniaet professiiu/Ivan Vasil'evich Changes Profession
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kirstyjane wrote 2 days ago: This week, there’s no need for my Good and Bad selves to duke it out. For once, I’m in … more →
A Review from the Soapbox - Stalin's Nemesis: the exile and murder of Leon Trotsky, by Bertrand M. Patenaude
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kirstyjane wrote 1 week ago: Stalin’s Nemesis came to me very highly recommended: a Radio 4 Book of the Week, it had met an … more →
Not in front of the Klingons: Star Trek I-VI
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kirstyjane wrote 2 weeks ago: I have a terrible confession. I am a lapsed Trekkie. It’s not the Trekkie part that causes m … more →
The Glorious Day: In Conversation with Stephen Greif
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kirstyjane wrote 4 weeks ago: Comrades! Today Bookfox Kirsty is joined by an honoured guest indeed: actor Stephen Greif. Stephen … more →
Sternschnupperkurs, by Jill Mansell (originally published as Good at Games)
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kirstyjane wrote 1 month ago: I used to be tolerably good at German, about ten years ago. Needless to say, I am not any more. How … more →
Why Trotsky? - a not particularly academic contemplation
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kirstyjane wrote 1 month ago: I am a Trotsky scholar. Well, I am no longer purely a Trotsky scholar (or no longer a pure one, dep … more →
Lost Lives: the story of the men, women and children who died as a result of the Northern Ireland troubles, by David McKittrick, Seamus Kelters, Brian Feeney and Chris Thornton
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kirstyjane wrote 1 month ago: We have tried to be non-judgemental in this work. Those who died in the troubles included civilians … more →
The wonder of molesworth
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kirstyjane wrote 2 months ago: Fancy a grown man saying hujus hujus hujus as if he were proud of it it is not english and do not ma … more →
Strictly, Come On Now
kirstyjane wrote 3 months ago: As a dance convert myself, as an instructor and as a believer in preventative healthcare and educati … more →
Dancing With Cuba, by Alma Guillermoprieto: A one person two hander
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kirstyjane wrote 3 months ago: Exhaustive, encyclopaedic, always full of fascinating figures and dates… Fidel was marvellous … more →
The French, the Fuss and the Fangirls: The Surrender of Napoleon, by Sir Frederick Lewis Maitland
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kirstyjane wrote 4 months ago: This is going to be an incredibly unhistorical review. I firmly believe that every historian, no ma … more →
Jeeves and the Sudden Derailment
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kirstyjane wrote 4 months ago: Warning: Strong language, dammit. I came to Jeeves and Wooster late. I first discovered Wodehouse … more →
The long, hard slog of language learning: an affectionate look
kirstyjane wrote 4 months ago: Due to my career path and the various international moves I’ve made in the last years, the pro … more →
Louise Bagshawe and the Unlikely Manifesto
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kirstyjane wrote 4 months ago: In tune with the spirit of Beach Week, I originally had quite a different kind of article in mind: a … more →
Feet, don't fail me now: why social dance isn't just a social exercise
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kirstyjane wrote 4 months ago: I’m currently suffering something that strikes fear into the heart of any dancer, athlete or f … more →
Critique and autocritique
kirstyjane wrote 4 months ago: I learned a very important lesson while trying to write a piece for Vulpes Libris. Namely, before y … more →
Not Dancing with Cuba: a Public Autocritique
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kirstyjane wrote 4 months ago: Comrades, I cannot – as I had hoped – post about Alma Guillermoprieto’s Dancing wi … more →
Citizen Smith: There's Something About Wolfie
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kirstyjane wrote 5 months ago: So, do you want the short version or the long version? For those interested in a more concise review … more →
A most novel and courageous undertaking
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kirstyjane wrote 5 months ago: As this is by way of being Michael Ng’s first topic as an Official Fox, what better introducti … more →
