Steve Mitchelmore
@mitchelmore.bsky.social
In the post today, the third volume of the new translation, this one by Peter Bush. And for under a tenner from Blackwell's.
November 7, 2025 at 12:58 PM
In the post today, the third volume of the new translation, this one by Peter Bush. And for under a tenner from Blackwell's.
"I cannot imagine a dinner party that would not be improved by violence."
For dinner party, read book club.
oldoldoldoldnew.substack.com/p/cioran-xv
For dinner party, read book club.
oldoldoldoldnew.substack.com/p/cioran-xv
Cioran XV
I cannot imagine a dinner party that would not be improved by violence.
oldoldoldoldnew.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
"I cannot imagine a dinner party that would not be improved by violence."
For dinner party, read book club.
oldoldoldoldnew.substack.com/p/cioran-xv
For dinner party, read book club.
oldoldoldoldnew.substack.com/p/cioran-xv
"The crisis for the novel in our time is that there is no crisis." this-space.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
The crisis of narration and the future of the novel, part two
Byung-Chul Han says in The Crisis of Narration that modernity "is animated by a belief in progress" and its narratives "radiate an aura bec...
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November 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
"The crisis for the novel in our time is that there is no crisis." this-space.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
"Lightness and humor are qualities I hold in very high regard. The artists of the last century who most excite me—Stravinsky, Picasso, Klee, Eliot, Proust, Kafka—all possess them."
www.liberation.fr/culture/livr...
www.liberation.fr/culture/livr...
Gabriel Josipovici : la vie labyrinthe et le fil de l’écriture
Parution du «Cimetière à Barnes» dont le personnage principal est un traducteur non écrivain, «malgré son amour des mots et des rythmes de la langue». Un livre du romancier britannique qui interrog...
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October 31, 2025 at 1:05 PM
"Lightness and humor are qualities I hold in very high regard. The artists of the last century who most excite me—Stravinsky, Picasso, Klee, Eliot, Proust, Kafka—all possess them."
www.liberation.fr/culture/livr...
www.liberation.fr/culture/livr...
"Victory to Vietnamese" (sic) graffiti still visible on the line between Fratton and Portsmouth & Southsea stations.
October 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
"Victory to Vietnamese" (sic) graffiti still visible on the line between Fratton and Portsmouth & Southsea stations.
New podcast from the European Graduate School featuring interviews with Christopher Fynsk and Avital Ronell. shows.acast.com/egs-podcast/...
European Graduate School Podcast
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October 15, 2025 at 11:08 AM
New podcast from the European Graduate School featuring interviews with Christopher Fynsk and Avital Ronell. shows.acast.com/egs-podcast/...
Anyone in the UK or who has access to iPlayer, Bryan Magee's series from the 80s The Great Philosophers is being repeated tonight on BBC4. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
The Great Philosophers - Series 1: 1. Plato
Myles Burnyeat looks at Plato, the first western philosopher whose written works have survived.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 13, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Anyone in the UK or who has access to iPlayer, Bryan Magee's series from the 80s The Great Philosophers is being repeated tonight on BBC4. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
On Byung-Chul Han's The Crisis of Narration.
this-space.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...
this-space.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...
The crisis of narration and the future of the novel, part one
My disappointment with the contemporary novel has been an occasional feature on this blog. Fourteen years ago I asked myself whether I had ...
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September 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
On Byung-Chul Han's The Crisis of Narration.
this-space.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...
this-space.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...
Nearly 20 years ago Arcade books announced Richard Howard's translation of Cioran's Cahiers. There was even a cover. But it never appeared. Searching for news just now, I discovered this: dustyhope.com/bel/emil-cio...
September 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Nearly 20 years ago Arcade books announced Richard Howard's translation of Cioran's Cahiers. There was even a cover. But it never appeared. Searching for news just now, I discovered this: dustyhope.com/bel/emil-cio...
Found this on a secondhand stall selling supermarket fiction.
September 23, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Found this on a secondhand stall selling supermarket fiction.
Lars Iyer has a new website now that Typepad is closing down. larsiyer.co.uk
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larsiyer.co.uk
September 16, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Lars Iyer has a new website now that Typepad is closing down. larsiyer.co.uk
Over a year since it was published and this is only the second review. Very welcome nonetheless.
bigother.com/2025/09/10/c...
bigother.com/2025/09/10/c...
Ceaseless Imaginative Striving: A Review of Gabriel Josipovici’s Partita / A Winter in Zürau
By Jeff Bursey “In those months Kafka came to understand that you cannot articulate or grasp final truths, only dramatize the burning need to do so and the impossibility of so doing…” —A Win…
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September 11, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Over a year since it was published and this is only the second review. Very welcome nonetheless.
bigother.com/2025/09/10/c...
bigother.com/2025/09/10/c...
How can we sleep? A post in response to reading @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social's
translation of volume 2 of In Search of Lost Time. this-space.blogspot.com/2025/09/read...
translation of volume 2 of In Search of Lost Time. this-space.blogspot.com/2025/09/read...
Reading, forgetting
When John Updike read À la recherche du temps perdu after having read Scott-Moncrieff's translation, he was surprised to find Proust less P...
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September 10, 2025 at 11:45 AM
How can we sleep? A post in response to reading @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social's
translation of volume 2 of In Search of Lost Time. this-space.blogspot.com/2025/09/read...
translation of volume 2 of In Search of Lost Time. this-space.blogspot.com/2025/09/read...
"In an in-between time in which nothing begins or ends, in which blank patience takes the place of activity, I picked two books from my shelves stubbornly remote from utility, lacking the intimacy of possession" this-space.blogspot.com/2025/08/read...
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August 28, 2025 at 1:11 PM
"In an in-between time in which nothing begins or ends, in which blank patience takes the place of activity, I picked two books from my shelves stubbornly remote from utility, lacking the intimacy of possession" this-space.blogspot.com/2025/08/read...
An interview with Rosalind Belben on the reissue of her 1979 novel Dreaming of Dead People. electricliterature.com/rosalind-bel...
Rosalind Belben Reflects on the Foreplay of Wordplay - Electric Literature
The author of “Dreaming of Dead People” discusses sexuality, double standards in art, and the vicissitudes of literary publishing
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August 19, 2025 at 7:28 PM
An interview with Rosalind Belben on the reissue of her 1979 novel Dreaming of Dead People. electricliterature.com/rosalind-bel...
Reposted by Steve Mitchelmore
Please help. Our department runs a groundbreaking part-time degree programme in English Literature and Community Engagement, known as ELCE, designed for mature students who didn't or couldn't do a degree at 18. The University of Bristol has decided to close it.
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Save our pioneering widening participation undergraduate degree in English Literature and Community Engagement at the University of Bristol
19 August 2025
Dear Evelyn Welch (Vice-Chancellor)
cc Judith Squires (Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost), Tansy Jessop (Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Students)
The School of Humanities has ...
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August 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Please help. Our department runs a groundbreaking part-time degree programme in English Literature and Community Engagement, known as ELCE, designed for mature students who didn't or couldn't do a degree at 18. The University of Bristol has decided to close it.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
"Imagine that we do not know what blindness is."
Very impressive essay on Autism by Sinéad Murphy.
brownstone.org/articles/wha...
Very impressive essay on Autism by Sinéad Murphy.
brownstone.org/articles/wha...
What Autism Is ⋆ Brownstone Institute
Autism is attributed to a range of causes, from childhood vaccination to the impersonal routines of metropolitan societies.
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August 12, 2025 at 12:37 PM
"Imagine that we do not know what blindness is."
Very impressive essay on Autism by Sinéad Murphy.
brownstone.org/articles/wha...
Very impressive essay on Autism by Sinéad Murphy.
brownstone.org/articles/wha...
Claude Monet looks like the van in Dumb & Dumber. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqHU...
Impressionists live
YouTube video by Lars Vilks
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August 9, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Claude Monet looks like the van in Dumb & Dumber. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqHU...
I found this 1965 US paperback on a sweltering day in Portsmouth, June 1987, the day Thatcher's Tories were elected for the third time. The page edges are tinted dark pink.
August 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I found this 1965 US paperback on a sweltering day in Portsmouth, June 1987, the day Thatcher's Tories were elected for the third time. The page edges are tinted dark pink.
Reposted by Steve Mitchelmore
Dreaming of Dead People by Rosalind Belben review – rivals anything by Virginia Woolf
Dreaming of Dead People by Rosalind Belben review – rivals anything by Virginia Woolf
More than 40 years on from its first publication, this exploration of one woman’s thoughts and fantasies is a gem worthy of rediscovery
www.theguardian.com
July 31, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Dreaming of Dead People by Rosalind Belben review – rivals anything by Virginia Woolf
On this day, 20 years since Jean Charles de Menezes was shot in the head by British police, I remember this entry to the TLS's 2008 Books of the Year.
As these same marchers are arrested for publically opposing genocide, I wonder who is annihilating these "cosseted freedoms".
As these same marchers are arrested for publically opposing genocide, I wonder who is annihilating these "cosseted freedoms".
July 22, 2025 at 12:23 PM
On this day, 20 years since Jean Charles de Menezes was shot in the head by British police, I remember this entry to the TLS's 2008 Books of the Year.
As these same marchers are arrested for publically opposing genocide, I wonder who is annihilating these "cosseted freedoms".
As these same marchers are arrested for publically opposing genocide, I wonder who is annihilating these "cosseted freedoms".
Out next month from And Other Stories. www.andotherstories.org/dreaming-of-...
July 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Out next month from And Other Stories. www.andotherstories.org/dreaming-of-...
A short post on three books I read and re-read this year.
The way of arrival
Two intellectual memoirs dominated my reading over Spring, three if WG Sebald's Silent Catastrophes can be included given that its analysis...
this-space.blogspot.com
July 9, 2025 at 12:07 PM
A short post on three books I read and re-read this year.
Read the first line in a bookshop in Southsea in the Summer of 1989. One of those key moments in a reading life. The original title is Der Chinese des Schmerzes but Ralph Manheim's renaming is more appropriate.
July 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Read the first line in a bookshop in Southsea in the Summer of 1989. One of those key moments in a reading life. The original title is Der Chinese des Schmerzes but Ralph Manheim's renaming is more appropriate.