Tag Archives: Bibliophobia: The End and the Beginning of the Book  by Brian Cummings.

London Review Of Books – March 7, 2024 Preview

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London Review of Books (LRB) – February 1, 2024: The latest issue features Mothers and Others – ‘The Pole’ and Other Stories by  J.M. Coetzee….

Death of the Book

By Adam Smyth

Sometimes we ignore a book’s material presence: absorbed, ‘good’ reading is often figured as a forgetting of the material conditions of book, body, room and time, even though these conditions affect how we read. With certain other books it makes no sense to separate text from object.

Bibliophobia: The End and the Beginning of the Book 
by Brian Cummings.

Give your mom a gun

By Geoff Mann

There are seventy million more privately held guns in the US – around four hundred million of them – than there are people. AR-15s comprise about 5 per cent of the total, but it is currently the best-selling rifle in the country.

American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15 
by Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson.

Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture and Control in Cold War America 
by Andrew C. McKevitt.