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JJ Charlesworth Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Art critic, editor at @ArtReview_ magazine. Marx fan. Anthropocentrist. More of everything for everyone. Words for ArtReview, Telegraph, spiked and others.

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Book Cover for: Not So Black and White: A History of Race from White Supremacy to Identity Politics, Kenan Malik

Not So Black and White: A History of Race from White Supremacy to Identity Politics

Kenan Malik
JJ CharlesworthJJ Charlesworth

My review of @kenanmalik's excellent new book 'Not So Black and White', for @ArtReview_ https://t.co/re5QTtso8R

Hardcover, 2023

$29.95Member price:$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Lady in the Lake, Raymond Chandler

The Lady in the Lake

Raymond Chandler
JJ CharlesworthJJ Charlesworth

As Jeeves & Wooster is censored by @PenguinBooks, I'm rereading Chandler's great 1944 Philip Marlowe story 'The Lady in the Lake'. In the first page Marlowe refers to one woman as a 'neat little blonde', and another as a 'light-haired lovely'. / https://t.co/BpcjPF46bo

Paperback, 1988

$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Magic Mountain: Introduction by A. S. Byatt, Thomas Mann

The Magic Mountain: Introduction by A. S. Byatt

Thomas Mann
JJ CharlesworthJJ Charlesworth

@artnome Thomas Mann's 'The Magic Mountain'. Only kidding.

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