Caspar Henderson Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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I also really enjoyed Free by @lea_ypi. It is a fascinating and at times very funny memoir of coming of age in Albania, a country which many of us in Britain hardly know, and whose people are often misrepresented here

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Been vaguely wondering what @Sarah_Bakewell, the author of superb books on Montaigne and the existentialists, has been up to, and am excited to learn that she has a book on humanism coming out in March https://t.co/Z7yJfrE6PD

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A lot that’s interesting and thought-provoking in this essay by Martha Nussbaum, extracted from her forthcoming book Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility https://t.co/ww9g74h8vx

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‘To save something from the time where we will never be again.’ Annie Ernaux, The Years

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“If [parts of Anthony Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land] sounds like they could have been written by Don DeLillo, there’s a reason. The apprehension that everything is connected is essentially a paranoid insight (and a useful one for the novelist, who can pose as esoteric decoder)…

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Among the books I am reading at present is Confidence Man by @maggieNYT. It's very well done. Reading it brings all the joy of reliving one of your worst nightmares in painstaking and excruciating detail

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I read little about the Commonwealth of England so lack comparators, but I learned a lot from Providence Lost by @_paullay. Fascinating on much, including the trajectory of the Quakers. A kick at the end: whatever of freedom achieved subsequently shadowed by slavery in Caribbean

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“Sometimes, in writing, you have to give up control, take a Zen attitude, and go where you’re being led, which is often right back to where you came from.” Zadie Smith on writing The Fraud, a historical novel, in the shadow of Charles Dickens https://t.co/ef9ysza40S

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In The Weird and the Eerie (2016), Mark Fisher defined eeriness as "constituted by a failure of absence or by a failure of presence"...

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“We like to think that novelists possess a special ethical strength, yet the morally compromised writer can project a strange kind of honesty—especially when his society is compromised to the same degree.” Alex Ross on Ernst Jünger https://t.co/5UZzpkkWzD