Tag: memoir

Look backwards to the history that you ought to make part of your own biography if you want to avoid political confusion.

June 10, 2026

I was just nearing 5 years of age when this magazine came out, still sold in pounds sterling at 4/- [4 shillings (20p now but what a large amount then)].This was the last edition of ‘Universities and Left Review’ (ULR) which became, together with ‘The New Reasoner’, the ‘New Left Review’ (NLR) in its next … More Look backwards to the history that you ought to make part of your own biography if you want to avoid political confusion.

Heather Christle‘s (2025)  ‘In The Rhododendrons’: thank you Kaveh Akbar for your recommendation on the book’s jacket that made me buy this. You have great friends.

May 22, 2025

In Heather Christle‘s (2025)  In The Rhododendrons many people (with effects of pleasure and pain or hope and despair) continually strike ‘the same pose’ that made images of a possible past recur. Christle tells us that is what family albums do, but that recurrence or repetition within them can, and perhaps should,  be perceived ‘differently’. … More Heather Christle‘s (2025)  ‘In The Rhododendrons’: thank you Kaveh Akbar for your recommendation on the book’s jacket that made me buy this. You have great friends.