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Protected: Summer of Discontent 2022
Category: Review
Sleazy Potboiler After Potter
If anyone could go one better in fiction after the Harry Potter books, it ought to have been JK Rowling herself. Sadly, The Casual Vacancy has to go down as her worst book, and I haven’t checked if she’s written any since. My father bought The Casual Vacancy – that too, a hardback – a… Continue reading Sleazy Potboiler After Potter
Protected: Bookmarking Life
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Protected: Reading In a Time of Uncertainty and Flux
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A New Social Contract for a New Kind of Economy
Minouche Shafik’s new book, What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract seems perfectly timed, with the world teetering between the 2008 financial crisis and a global pandemic. The book is not written for the general reader, but I think that they too might like it. They would like it for her astute observations… Continue reading A New Social Contract for a New Kind of Economy
A Breezy Tour of a Nation’s Chutzpah
Many years ago, I heard great things about a book called Start-up Nation and so I finally decided to buy it from Amazon India and read it. It is a Council on Foreign Relations book co-authored by Dan Senor and Saul Singer, both of whom are Israeli Jews. Dan Senor is a senior fellow at… Continue reading A Breezy Tour of a Nation’s Chutzpah
Protected: Reading for a Grim Spring
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Protected: Hope Against Hope
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Protected: Why 2022 Might be a Bumpy Flight
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Protected: This Way, To Understanding 2022
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Peripatetic Perch 