Jan Breslau
@janbreslau.bsky.social
Dora Marsden (1882-1960)
December 4, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Dora Marsden (1882-1960)
Looking For Something Relevant
November 14, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Looking For Something Relevant
On The Rocky Road To Nowhere
November 14, 2025 at 7:56 AM
On The Rocky Road To Nowhere
You don't have to be an attorney to write so well about courtrooms, but it surely helps to be one. This book is a very competent way of tackling the problem of justice undone. What's next though? Trump's sexual offenses trial? That would be a treat. Better still: let's make sure he has a real one.
September 30, 2025 at 7:16 AM
You don't have to be an attorney to write so well about courtrooms, but it surely helps to be one. This book is a very competent way of tackling the problem of justice undone. What's next though? Trump's sexual offenses trial? That would be a treat. Better still: let's make sure he has a real one.
Mind you, there's a freezer in my garage
More or less the size of Nigel Farage...
More or less the size of Nigel Farage...
September 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Mind you, there's a freezer in my garage
More or less the size of Nigel Farage...
More or less the size of Nigel Farage...
Saul Bellow, Herzog
September 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Saul Bellow, Herzog
Heinrich Böll, THE CLOWN:
September 2, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Heinrich Böll, THE CLOWN:
ORWELL: Society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud. Such a society, no matter how long it persists, can never afford to become either tolerant or intellectually stable.
August 21, 2025 at 10:16 AM
ORWELL: Society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud. Such a society, no matter how long it persists, can never afford to become either tolerant or intellectually stable.
George Orwell on books by AI: "[...] perhaps some kind of low-grade sensational fiction will survive, produced by a sort of conveyor-belt process that reduces human initiative to the minimum. It would probably not be beyond human ingenuity to write books by machinery." The Prevention of Literature
August 21, 2025 at 9:03 AM
George Orwell on books by AI: "[...] perhaps some kind of low-grade sensational fiction will survive, produced by a sort of conveyor-belt process that reduces human initiative to the minimum. It would probably not be beyond human ingenuity to write books by machinery." The Prevention of Literature
Matt Elliott. Chapeau.
August 19, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Matt Elliott. Chapeau.
Cul-de-sac. Genius
August 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Cul-de-sac. Genius
Marat/Sade by Brook; 1967
June 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Marat/Sade by Brook; 1967
Gertrude Trevelyan's "William's Wife:"
no sex, no violence, no gore à la Kafka's "A Hunger Artist," no politicized socialism of Engels, London, Woolf, or Orwell. Plenty of empathy and a capable pen instead, describing the anatomy of poverty instigated by patriarchy's lesser, unwitting scallywags.
no sex, no violence, no gore à la Kafka's "A Hunger Artist," no politicized socialism of Engels, London, Woolf, or Orwell. Plenty of empathy and a capable pen instead, describing the anatomy of poverty instigated by patriarchy's lesser, unwitting scallywags.
March 31, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Gertrude Trevelyan's "William's Wife:"
no sex, no violence, no gore à la Kafka's "A Hunger Artist," no politicized socialism of Engels, London, Woolf, or Orwell. Plenty of empathy and a capable pen instead, describing the anatomy of poverty instigated by patriarchy's lesser, unwitting scallywags.
no sex, no violence, no gore à la Kafka's "A Hunger Artist," no politicized socialism of Engels, London, Woolf, or Orwell. Plenty of empathy and a capable pen instead, describing the anatomy of poverty instigated by patriarchy's lesser, unwitting scallywags.
Don't be fooled by its light tone.
Defoe means business.
He means moral application.
Defoe means business.
He means moral application.
March 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Don't be fooled by its light tone.
Defoe means business.
He means moral application.
Defoe means business.
He means moral application.
Comic Masterpiece for the fans of the Italian cinema:
"This Time We're Talking About Men," 1965, directed by
Lina Wertmüller, featuring the incredible Nino Manfredi.
"This Time We're Talking About Men," 1965, directed by
Lina Wertmüller, featuring the incredible Nino Manfredi.
March 17, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Comic Masterpiece for the fans of the Italian cinema:
"This Time We're Talking About Men," 1965, directed by
Lina Wertmüller, featuring the incredible Nino Manfredi.
"This Time We're Talking About Men," 1965, directed by
Lina Wertmüller, featuring the incredible Nino Manfredi.
A Great Story told with Simplicity and
Intelligence worthy of Musil, Walser,
and Mann. Jerusalem's book should be
discussed and written about as an integral
part of the European literary canon
alongside the above authors.
Intelligence worthy of Musil, Walser,
and Mann. Jerusalem's book should be
discussed and written about as an integral
part of the European literary canon
alongside the above authors.
March 15, 2025 at 5:28 PM
A Great Story told with Simplicity and
Intelligence worthy of Musil, Walser,
and Mann. Jerusalem's book should be
discussed and written about as an integral
part of the European literary canon
alongside the above authors.
Intelligence worthy of Musil, Walser,
and Mann. Jerusalem's book should be
discussed and written about as an integral
part of the European literary canon
alongside the above authors.
Benedictus Spinoza...
March 10, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Benedictus Spinoza...
An impressive read:
Else Jerusalem - "Red House Alley"
Published by Boiler House Press
Else Jerusalem - "Red House Alley"
Published by Boiler House Press
February 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
An impressive read:
Else Jerusalem - "Red House Alley"
Published by Boiler House Press
Else Jerusalem - "Red House Alley"
Published by Boiler House Press
Steve Stern:
"A Fool's Kabbalah"
"A Fool's Kabbalah"
February 20, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Steve Stern:
"A Fool's Kabbalah"
"A Fool's Kabbalah"
Ah, the glorious days of BREXIT, the undiluted
national pride, the perfectly excusable, neatly
politicized xenophobia of those days,
and the making of the true patriots...
Rule, Britannia! Rule...
national pride, the perfectly excusable, neatly
politicized xenophobia of those days,
and the making of the true patriots...
Rule, Britannia! Rule...
February 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Ah, the glorious days of BREXIT, the undiluted
national pride, the perfectly excusable, neatly
politicized xenophobia of those days,
and the making of the true patriots...
Rule, Britannia! Rule...
national pride, the perfectly excusable, neatly
politicized xenophobia of those days,
and the making of the true patriots...
Rule, Britannia! Rule...
