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Category Archives: Books
Chimanmanda Adichie’s Single Story
“I have always felt that it is impossible to engage properly with a place or a person, without engaging with all the stories of that place and that person. ” Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Books, Multiculturalism
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The Bookseller of Kabul
Dragging this sort of roman a clef into the court-room is a terrible precedent for free expression. Continue reading
Posted in Books, Human Rights, Middle East, Political Correctness
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Mieville on Teleporting
At the event on Tuesday night, I remarked that China Mieville and Cory Doctorow share an irritating trait, which is to lathe my own ideas into science fiction books, many years before I even have the thought for the first … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Science, Space Travel
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Doctorow/Mieville
Some photos from the event on Tuesday night Continue reading
Posted in Books, Diary
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Multi-Signature Letter on Azerbaijan
The letter in The Guardian is an example of a multi-signatory letter, an age old tactic for all types of political campaigner. Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, London
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Harper Lee on the Modern World
I am tired of this lazy shortcut, which equates using technology with stupidity of having an ‘empty mind’. What do Lee and the other smug detractors of the Internet think we are doing with all this technology? We are consuming ideas. We are thinking, collectively more deeper and with more eclecticism than ever before. Continue reading
Posted in Books, Internet Philosophy
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The Empty Chair (a.k.a. Cory Doctorow is Away)
I wrote and performed an impromtu poem at the London Book Fair. Continue reading
Posted in Books, Human Rights
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Fallout
My photoset on Flickr, showing the economic fallout of the volcanic erruption… Continue reading
Posted in Books, Economy, London, Visual
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Blog Burning
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post – ‘Write A Blog, Kill Your Career‘, about the possibility of bloggers going into politics and the trouble that their archives might cause them. I linked to a marvellous cartoon by … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Internet Philosophy, Politics
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Judging a Book by its Cover
An event report I wrote for the English PEN website. I’ll admit, I judged this event by its cover. I assumed that an discussion titled ‘Judging a book by its cover’ would be about book jacket design, rich and fertile … Continue reading
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