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Author: PGR

  • final phase

    Finally! Been a long time waiting for this to arrive, after assorted delays and mishaps. And it arrives within a few days of my hearing that Alexandra Pierce at Locus made particular mention of my piece herein (among a few others), and described it as “a powerful story on many levels”; not gonna quibble with…

  • 12DEC22 / accessions

    A delayed-in-the-mail batch of non-fiction, and presumably the last accessions of the year… perhaps even for a while? I think I need to stage some sort of intervention on myself, this habit’s getting out of hand.

  • 11DEC22 / accessions

    This second-hand selection is brought to you live from the National Museum in Stockholm, where I have reconvened with L____ after she kindly turned me loose in a local oddball bookstore before retreating to a cafe. S’how you know it’s love, innit?

  • 08DEC22 / accessions

    A double-drop catch-up from the accessions department. First batch were bought last weekend. WicDiv #3 because I’ve started and feel I want to continue; the Rian Hughes because I bought XX some time last year in hardback and the sheer mass of the thing keeps putting me off starting it, so figured maybe The Black…

  • science found it hard to converse with the rest of society

    Nice to see a typically long LRB review of Latour’s last two books, but Harding makes a bit of a blunder here, perhaps due to his not having been party to decades of STS discourse: There was a hint in We Have Never Been Modern that science found it hard to converse with the rest…