Category: Accessions
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21JUL23 / accessions
A couple of laggards that were meant to come in with the previous shipment: Whitehead’s Harlem Shuffle proved excellent, so now attention is being turned to earlier works heretofore overlooked. The acquisition of the Prose Edda is at least in part about integrating the institution with the deep history of its socio-cultural environment, but the…
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18JUL23 / accessions
The accessions department is off visiting a monastery today, so the following report has been prepared in advance. Errors and omissions &c &c. Classic goth seems to be having its, ah, moment in the sun right now. The Cathi Unsworth has some good reviews, and promises to be rather better edited than John Robb’s recent…
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22JUN23 / accessions
The accessions department considered any new Ann Leckie a non-negotiable acquisition, given the institution’s response to previous volumes by the same author. Tchaikovsky is actually a newcomer to the institutional collection, which is somewhat surprising given the author’s astonishing productivity and sterling reputation. That this volume collects novellas rather than being part of an extended…
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16JUN23 / accessions
The accessions department invites anyone seeking a justification for the acquisition of Mike Harrison’s new anti-memoir—in a signed hardback edition, no less—to, and I quote verbatim, “get themselves bloody well looked at”. The department’s position on the Science Fiction and Innovation Design edited volume is rather more professional, to the point of terseness: this is…
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11JUN23 / accessions
The accessions department is far from tireless, but rarely rests. It acquired this copy of the new posthumous Graeber while dropping in at Shakespeare & Sons, an English-language bookshop in Prague, that most literary of cities. Quite why the institution was in Prague is a topic for a later update, perhaps… though it bears noting…