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

An Atlas of Imaginary Lands - The Writer's Map [my review]

the challenges of being a tree - Trees: Their Natural History [my review]

a short novel of aging and memory, of pain, suffering, love and joy - Difficult Light [my review]

Blob Opera: a great distraction from the world! - Google

How Numerical Models Revealed the Secrets of Climate Change - Beyond Global Warming [my review]

searching for books in translation, by language - Publishers Weekly

entwined from antiquity - State and Religion in China: Historical and Textual Perspectives [my review]

short stories by Serge Pey - The Treasure of the Spanish Civil War [my review]

from the Safavids to Khomeini - Iran: A Modern History [my review]

Emily Wilson on Aeschylus' _Oresteia_ and its translations - LRB

a new look at the great Tang poets Li Bai and Tu Fu - NYROB

The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality - Building the Cycling City [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.