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Excellent BBC programme to mark 14 July: "Terror: Robespierre and the French Revolution"
I was transfixed by this excellent programme with its interweaving voices of historians and philosophers (Simon Schama and Slavoj Zizek offer very different interpretations of the Jacobin Revolutionar… more →
A World of Words
Excellent BBC programme to mark 14 July: "Terror: Robespierre and the French Revolution"
lucy wrote 5 days ago: I was transfixed by this excellent programme with its interweaving voices of historians and philosop … more →
story, story, story
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Carol McGuigan wrote 6 days ago: “Where a walking story goes, grows no grass”, quips Eckhart Tolle, mocking the thought-b … more →
Can you define historical truth, or write truthful fiction?
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lucy wrote 1 month ago: Well that’s a big question that I won’t even try to answer now, but it’s the lead- … more →
Revenge of the Doorstop
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James Bradley wrote 2 months ago: Now I don’t mean to carp, but what is it with 2009 and unreasonably fat books? It’s only … more →
I chased The Handmaid's Tale in The Women's Room, or, Did Mantel Know Tale?
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DSL. wrote 3 months ago: ♫ Well, you can tell by the way I use my blog, I’m a woman’s man – what rhymes wit … more →
Reading Matters
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charlotteotter wrote 9 months ago: Instead of writing, I have been reading, getting through swathes of books and loving them. Here are … more →
Beyond Black, Hilary Mantel
Designer Brothers wrote 1 year ago: Beyond Black, Hilary MantelOriginally uploaded by heretakis Hilary Mantel has done something ex … more →
A Quote From a Book I've Been Reading:
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sashafire wrote 2 years ago: “…there are times in life when you must murder the past. Take a hatchet to what you use … more →
Beyond Black: Three Approaches
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Gene wrote 3 years ago: I recently read Hilary Mantel’s Beyond Black, which is a fine book. I found myself wondering a … more →
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