John Merrick Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Writer, critic: Baffler, NLR, Jacobin, Guardian etc. Editing Raphael Samuel's essays. Editor: @versobooks johnphilipmerrick@gmail.com / john@verso.co.uk
True Grit
Charles PortisJohn MerrickThis is a terrific essay by @willstep_ on Charles Portis https://t.co/pyEzMHiCas
Paperback, 2010
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Life;
Benvenuto CelliniJohn MerrickFinished @TomCrewe1’s The New Life, and enjoyed it immensely. A terrific historical novel, based on the story of Havelock Ellis and John Addington Symonds’s Sexual Inversion https://t.co/7y48RWeNsl
Paperback, 2018
$29.95Member price:$26.95 + Free shipping10% off
Studies in the Psychology of Sex: Sexual Inversion
Havelock EllisJohn MerrickFinished @TomCrewe1’s The New Life, and enjoyed it immensely. A terrific historical novel, based on the story of Havelock Ellis and John Addington Symonds’s Sexual Inversion https://t.co/7y48RWeNsl
Hardcover, 2016
$38.95Member price:$35.06 + Free shipping10% off
Level 3: Notting Hill
Richard CurtisJohn Merrickyeah yeah everyone laugh at the silly headline about peckham and gentrification if you want, but the true reveal in the piece is that China Mieville was in Richard Curtis’s Notting Hill, and that he reads it incredibly as a post-fascist dystopia https://t.co/MAEZ1KNJ5w
Paperback, 2008
$13.59Member price:$13.59 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Critical Revolutionaries: Five Critics Who Changed the Way We Read
Terry EagletonJohn MerrickI promise this is the last time i'll post this, but ICYMI here's my latest essay for @thebafflermag on Terry Eagleton's new book Critical Revolutionaries (@YaleBooks @YaleRepUK) and the development of literary criticism in the C20th Britain https://t.co/iKJfjq8dF9
Paperback, 2023
$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study
John GuilloryJohn MerrickA great essay here from @n_j_dames on John Guillory’s Professing Criticism https://t.co/zkGiHMoRaK
Paperback, 2022
$29.00Member price:$27.55 + Free shipping5% off
Psychology of sex vol II: sexual inversion
Havelock EllisJohn MerrickFinished @TomCrewe1’s The New Life, and enjoyed it immensely. A terrific historical novel, based on the story of Havelock Ellis and John Addington Symonds’s Sexual Inversion https://t.co/7y48RWeNsl
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Sexual Inversion: A Critical Edition
H. EllisJohn MerrickFinished @TomCrewe1’s The New Life, and enjoyed it immensely. A terrific historical novel, based on the story of Havelock Ellis and John Addington Symonds’s Sexual Inversion https://t.co/7y48RWeNsl
Paperback, 2008
$109.99Member price:$104.49 + Free shipping5% off
Dig Where You Stand: How to Research a Job
Sven LindqvistJohn MerrickExcellent news that in spring next year Sven Lindqvist's ground-breaking work of social investigation, that spawned a global movement of worker-historians, Dig Where You Stand is finally being published in full in English! https://t.co/7CsQz8WuCO
Paperback, 2023
$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580
Eamon DuffyJohn Merrick@multimimetica A yeah, good shout on the first one – and that Eamon Duffy is incredible, isn't it? In fact, everything he's done is incredible. The Stripping of the Altars is one of the great history books of the past half decade imo
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