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notes on the cheese and the worms
Review of Carlo Ginzburg’s The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
Sep 10
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notes on spin dictators
review of Sergei Gureiv and Daniel Treisman’s “Spin Dictators”
Sep 6
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notes on hot milk
Review of Deborah Levy’s “Hot Milk”
Aug 31
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notes on the permanence of polycrisis
we have always been in "polycrisis"— and now we know it!
Aug 24
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notes on mother mary comes to me
a book by arundhati roy
Aug 17
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notes on the books I read in 2025
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paul graham's notes on writing well
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notes on thought experiments
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notes on minimum democracy
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notes on human acts
In one of the chapters of Han Kang’s Human Acts, a character, who had been jailed and tortured, asks: ‘Is it true that human beings are fundamentally…
Aug 10
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notes on minimum democracy
citizens reduced to demanding a resignation and citizens resigned from demanding
Aug 6
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notes on the history of islam
In her book Islam: A Short History, Karen Armstrong seeks to untangle the tumultuous history of Islam through time.
Aug 3
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notes on risk society
Writing against the backdrop of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, Ulrich Beck first published Risikogesellschaft in Germany in 1986.
Aug 2
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william zinsser's notes on writing well
notes on Zinsser's tips for writing a non-fiction
Mar 28
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paul graham's notes on writing well
notes on Paul Graham’s essays on writing
Jan 16
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notes on the books I read in 2025
a wrap-up of reading, writing, and PhD
Jan 8
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notes on a pale view of hills
I read Kazuo Ishiguro’s A Pale View of Hills, first published in 1982, with intense curiosity.
Oct 30, 2025
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notes on reading like virginia woolf
on subtleties of reading a text
Oct 25, 2025
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notes on pradhanmantri sagrahalaya
For more than two years now, first as a research assistant on a project and later for my own PhD project, I have travelled to the Prime Ministers Museum…
Sep 18, 2025
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notes on the vegetarian
Han Kang’s novel The Vegetarian, published in South Korea in 2007 and translated into English by Deborah Smith in 2015, begins as follows: “Before my…
Sep 7, 2025
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notes on what is history
review of the E.H. Carr’s book “What is History?”
Sep 4, 2025
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