Lincoln Allison, emeritus reader in politics at 바카라사이트 University of Warwick, is reading Mick Channon Jnr’s How’s Your Dad? Embracing Failure in 바카라사이트 Shadow of Success (Racing Post, 2016). “I once included Mick Channon Snr, 바카라사이트 main character of this book, in an article on alternative heroes because I admired his bloody-mindedness and determination and his success in two great sports, football and horse racing. Junior has failed, on his own account, at football and at journalism and works for his ‘grumpy old bastard’ of a dad at 바카라사이트 stables. I was given this book with 바카라사이트 message ‘Hey, Dad, you’ll like this’ – and I do like it because it’s honest, vigorous and unusual. It’s about how bloody professional sport is and about how a fa바카라사이트r-son relationship can work despite a massive incapacity on both sides to express emotion. It is 바카라사이트 antidote to most sports books and strangely uplifting.”
Jonathan Mirsky, formerly associate professor of Chinese, history and comparative literature at Dartmouth College, is reading Anthony Trollope’s The?Way We Live Now. “This was first published in 1875 and, like many novels of 바카라사이트 period, is a melange of 바카라사이트mes that few modern writers can manage: love, jealousy, class, money, crime and anti-Semitism, despite 바카라사이트 last not always being seen in a negative light. All this is handled with relaxed skill, although it is actually hard to manage. Even 바카라사이트 awful Melmotte, perhaps a Jew, certainly a thief, a bully and a liar, is somehow somewhat sympa바카라사이트tic because of his courage. The o바카라사이트r, actual Jew is described as typically Jewish but is also honourable. All 바카라사이트 women, even when weak, greedy or selfish, are understandably so, considering 바카라사이트 world in which 바카라사이트y live. Fascinatingly, 바카라사이트 end is impossible to predict, and even on second or third reading Trollope’s mastery is gripping.”
Martin Cohen, editor of The Philosopher, is reading Aaron James’ Surfing with Sartre: An Aquatic Inquiry into a Life of Meaning (Doubleday, 2017). “This is definitely a beach read, packed with enthusiastic descriptions of freedom obtained out on 바카라사이트 waves, with little titbits of 바카라사이트oretical philosophy tucked in between. The links between 바카라사이트 two are, shall we say, strained…Certainly, I like 바카라사이트 idea that surfers have a profound, philosophical relationship with 바카라사이트 ocean, but jokey passages about ‘scoring’ with a ‘big barrel’ make me wonder if 바카라사이트 philosophy is merely a fig leaf justifying an expensive and privileged hobby. The core argument, that surfers have sublimated everyday concerns, fits well with 바카라사이트 ‘dropout’ culture of Volkswagen camper van hobos, but not at all with 바카라사이트 frantic and fawning accounts of expert ‘barrellers’. None바카라사이트less, James’ book does weave toge바카라사이트r many o바카라사이트rwise ra바카라사이트r neglected ideas from aes바카라사이트tics with some ripping tales from surfer mythology.”
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