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My blog post on Gary Indiana's trilogy of crime novels, Resentment, Three Month Fever and Depraved Indifference #booksky

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Gary Indiana's Inhuman Comedy
The Crime TrilogyGary, Indiana It was only just before rereading Resentment (1997), the first of Gary Indiana’s crime trilogy, that I learned the author had passed from lung cancer last October, aged ...
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A short guide to Spinoza's concept of freedom

#philosophy #PhilSky #spinoza

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September 8, 2025 at 12:12 PM
My blog post on Charles Laughton's 1955 movie Night of the Hunter, and the 1953 source novel by David Grubb

#movies #moviesky #filmsky #books #booksky

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Night of the Hunter, a Southern Gothic Grotesquerie
Last Summer Penguin launched their Modern Classics Crime and Espionage series, and there are now twenty-nine titles in the collection. The livery features the same green as that of their Penguin Crim...
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September 7, 2025 at 11:34 AM
My blog post on Narcisa Ibanez Serrador's cult 1976 horror Who Can Kill a Child #movies #moviesky #filmsky #horror

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September 7, 2025 at 11:30 AM
My blog post on Gary Indiana's trilogy of crime novels, Resentment, Three Month Fever and Depraved Indifference #booksky

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Gary Indiana's Inhuman Comedy
The Crime TrilogyGary, Indiana It was only just before rereading Resentment (1997), the first of Gary Indiana’s crime trilogy, that I learned the author had passed from lung cancer last October, aged ...
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September 5, 2025 at 9:39 PM
A blog post on Ally Louks, class privilege and the malaise of English Literature studies in the UK:

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‘Learn’d spew’: Ally Louks, opportunistic conformism, and the death of English studies
When Ally Louks created a Twitter storm after announcing on X that she’d passed her PhD with her thesis Olfactory Ethics: The Politics of Smell in Modern and Contemporary Prose, it gave outsiders a ra...
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March 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM