Oliver Kamm Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Oliver Kamm

@twlldun He’s not one of the brighter trolls on this platform, I’m afraid. I’d ask if he’s heard of Jean-Luc Godard, a giant of French cinema and a shameless antisemite - but I seriously doubt that he has. https://t.co/7RYfktUiYP

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@Factsareafriend @MrEd_81 @MechaNonPlacet @PippaCrerar No, but ex hypothesi, they know about language, and you’ll find my criticism of this practice backed up in A Student’s Introduction to English Grammar by Rodney Huddleston & Geoffrey Pullum, the two leading scholars of English syntax working today.

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@MattChorley @tomparkhill Some other classics - It Didn’t Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States, which is a fine scholarly study by the sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset. Kudos to Beyoncé.

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I’ve often walked past the house on Gillingham Street, behind Victoria, with the Joseph Conrad plaque and wondered what lies within. The answer turns out to be expensive bad taste, which is a shame. The Secret Agent is one of the great political novels. https://t.co/W9PWv6T0wl

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@joslyoung @ElizWinkler @PublishersWkly @NRO You’re welcome. The theory that Christopher Marlowe was the true author of Shakespeare has the insuperable obstacle that he died in 1593, long before most of the works were penned. We know, from the archival research of the C20th scholar Leslie Hotson, who murdered him and where.

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Very glad to see this guide to the work of WG Sebald by Sandra Haurant in @guardian. Sebald’s novel Austerlitz is an espec significant work, which won many awards and was IMO the single greatest achievement of his translator (my late mother) Anthea Bell. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jun/22/where-to-start-with-wg-sebald?CMP=share_btn_tw

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@rafaelbehr The Rappites of Indiana seem apposite here too. (This is from Martin Gardner’s book The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener.) https://t.co/nsg9UGICQD

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@MattChorley @tomparkhill Well spotted. It’s a crank book by a man called Jonathan Boyd Hunt, who insists that Hamilton was innocent. He used to follow me round the internet pressing this case. He is also a creationist. Much more interesting is Beyoncé’s taste for Hermione Lee’s big biog of Edith Wharton.

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I’ve often walked past the house on Gillingham Street, behind Victoria, with the Joseph Conrad plaque and wondered what lies within. The answer turns out to be expensive bad taste, which is a shame. The Secret Agent is one of the great political novels. https://t.co/W9PWv6T0wl

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@JohnRentoul @ChrisRGollop @Independent From Julia Lovell’s excellent book Maoism: A Global History. https://t.co/x1MwnQ4Owr