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

a classic murder mystery with a political-legal twist - An English Murder [my review]

The Diversity of a Narrative Tradition in South Asia - Many Ramayanas [my review]

Chinese "Silent Traveller" writer gets a blue plaque in Oxford - Guardian

Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World - Agents of Empire [my review]

children's book update: reading at six and a half - Wandering Danny

five great-looking translated children's books - Words Without Borders

Facts and Fallacies in Historical Linguistics - The Indo-European Controversy [my review]

How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World - The Horse, The Wheel, and Language [my review]

Hollywood's individualism failed to do justice to George R.R. Martin's sociological storytelling - Scientific American

when pictures tell a thousand stories: wordless picturebooks for all ages - Federation of Children's Book Groups [PDF via @librarymice]

Ziegler and Aigner on _Proofs from the Book_ - Quanta [via @QuantaMagazine] - my review

science, engineering, history and politics - The Future of Fusion Energy [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.