Jo Wolff Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Jo Wolff

Just read Gunter Grass's Crabwalk - a novel written around the real-life WW2 sinking of the ship the Wilhelm Gustloff, with around 9,000 deaths. Barely known but the biggest maritime disaster in history. Had forgotten how brilliant a writer Grass is. Must go back to other books.

Jo Wolff

@fionaellis66 Just read Vladimir by Julia May Jonas - superb. Made me ruminate about UK.

Jo Wolff

Each time I open Art Spiegelman’s incredible Maus I see something I hadn’t noticed before. https://t.co/Toz4JzyTrV

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"The importance of the book consists to a great extent in the bibliography" (From a review of the English edition of Anton Menger's The Right to the Whole Produce of Labour 1899. And it's true.)

Jo Wolff

“It bears the flowers only, and not the fruits.” Evocative line (there are so many examples) attributed to Judah Halevy (died 1141) by Rebecca Goldstein in her book Betraying Spinoza.

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Trigger warning from Hans Fallada’s 1937 novel Wolf Among Wolves. https://t.co/c1IaLPfihm

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If Jordan Peterson has another 12 rules for life, what does that mean for people who were living by the last 12?

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‘I must not do anything I cannot bear to remember.’ Elisabeth Young-Bruehl’s summary of Hannah Arendt’s Socrates-inspired moral starting point (from her biography of Arendt.)

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Shocking news: Hilary Mantel, celebrated author of Wolf Hall, dies aged 70 https://t.co/0S7hbvjnt1

Jo Wolff

Recently finished Hans Fallada’s enjoyable but over-long saga Wolf Among Wolves. The central character of the book appears to be the rapidly deteriorating Dollar-Mark exchange rate during 1920s hyper-inflation.

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