Jessica Whyte Adania Shibli, Minor Detail. Trans. Elisabeth Jaquette. (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2020) Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail is a novel made of two stories of violence and domination, separated by more than six decades. In the first, set during the...
Maria Aristodemou Aaron Schuster, How to Research Like a Dog: Kafka’s New Science (MIT Press, 2024) The narrator dog of one of Kafka’s short stories, “Investigations of a Dog”, declares that “all knowledge, all questions and all answers are contained...
Costas Douzinas The Dalkey Archive by Flan O’Brien (First publication 1964, Fourth Estate, 2007) ‘Suspended Sentences”, a theatrical play that was published as a chapter in Postmodern Jurisprudence by Costas Douzinas and Ronnie Warrington with Shaun McVeigh...
Many years ago when this blog began, we used to run a series called “what we are reading…”. The idea was simply to share some initial thoughts on texts that we were finding helpful or interesting. We hoped share a certain joy of texts, and to take pleasure in the...
