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

Switzerland: A Village History [my review]

Science Fiction and the Quest for Transcendence - The World Beyond the Hill [my review]

1929, the Great Depression, and the Bankers Who Broke the World - Lords of Finance [my review]

fifteen Japanese short stories from the 1920s - Ryunosuke's "Mandarins" [my review]

an approach to Fermat's Last Theorem - Fearless Symmetry [my review]

history, politics, language, religion, wealth and identity - Why Switzerland? [my review]

a childhood at the end of the Ottoman Empire - Portrait of a Turkish Family [my review]

fifteen small presses and their books - Huffington [via @chadwpost]

Bridges: The Science and Art of the World's Most Inspiring Structures [my review]

Barbara Nadel's Istanbul murder mystery - Deep Waters [my review]

background on Neshat's film Women Without Men - Guardian

The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone [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.