Month: August 2021

by M. Bijman August 27, 2021

Review of Nonfiction Review of Reference Work

Music with hooks like talons – The Song Machine, by John Seabrook

Anyone who is a musician will recognize the image on the cover of John Seabrook’s book: it is a quaverContinue Reading

by M. Bijman August 21, 2021

Backstories History of English Humor Humour

The people are revolting, are they?

Seven Circumstances investigates People in my family like to say “the people are revolting” whenever we see a riot orContinue Reading

by M. Bijman August 9, 2021

Poetry

Mahmoud Darwish died 13 years ago today, but his words are immortal

One of the artists to whom Leila Marshy refers in her novel The Philistine, which I recently reviewed, is theContinue Reading

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