Books and Media

my book reviews - ramblings of a pathologically eclectic generalist
a film diary - with brief comments and the occasional review
Australian bookshops and publishers
rec.arts.books.reviews - book reviews on Usenet
Reading Notes - including Harry Potter criticism.

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Links and News

Islam, Racism, Crime, and the Uighur in China - Under the Heel of the Dragon [my review]

Birth of the Chess Queen [my review]

powerful women and chess in medieval Europe

Philip Roth on the future of the novel - Guardian - YouTube

a cult, limited to "maybe more people than now read Latin poetry"

I got to play with the new Kindle, thanks to @seancarmody - Amazon

an impressive device, but not open enough for me - at a minimum I'd need to be able to get PDFs on and off it without involving Amazon or proprietary software

Vietnam: A Natural History [my review]

biogeography, flora and fauna, and conservation

Q.E.D. Beauty in Mathematical Proof [my review]

translator Natasha Wimmer discusses Roberto Bolano - CAtranslation [audio]

Japan to 1600: A Social and Economic History [my review]

you don't know who Herta Müller is? - CompleteReview

a history of English marriage (book review) - Telegraph

an authorised sequel to the Winnie-the-Pooh books - Guardian

writers of the No - Bartleby and Co. [my review]

(For more, see my blog Pathologically Polymathic or the latest book reviews.)

Other Resources

I don't really follow the publishing industry, or the latest in book gossip - I prefer to wait till five or ten years after a book's publication, when the fuss has died down a little and a longer-term perspective is available. If you're after book news I recommend the Complete Review's Literary Saloon, which also has links to other literary weblogs.