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“Yoga is the story of a fall from grace by someone who feels he has let himself and others down” — Henri Astier recommends this memoir by Emmanuel Carrère, a remarkable book that invites readers to make peace with themselves https://t.co/66eKwNZnJI

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.@militaryhistori reflects on the cultural significance of Britain’s railroads: “Britain’s literary and celluloid love affair with iron rails and steam began with the publication of Edith Nesbit’s The Railway Children” https://t.co/6C3Dhlg48s

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“One of the few silver linings for the war in Ukraine has been the spotlighting of Ukrainian culture” — @rosemaryj77 cites how Andrey Kurkov received a National Book Critics Circle Award this year for his novel Grey Bees, set in the Donbas https://t.co/Brb7X5AFyW

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.@MattHansonAF has to admit he was painfully underwhelmed by Quentin Tarantino’s Cinema Speculation: “The book works best when Tarantino calms down and focuses on the pithier moments that often go ignored in major films” https://t.co/TSeh9ttOPb

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“The Windsors at War paints a picture of an insalubrious pair, possibly unconsciously nasty” — @militaryhistori is reminded of Tom and Daisy Buchanan in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby https://t.co/NZYJfCS282

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John Wilson Foster recalls how John Howard Griffin successfully disguised himself as a black man and travelled through the segregated Deep South: “His resulting book, Black Like Me, recounted the travails of the race he temporarily pretended to belong to” https://t.co/BkZilgmrJd

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Lucasta Miller reflects on the relevance of Marion Turner’s The Wife of Bath: A Biography:“You don’t have to have read Chaucer in the original Middle English, or even a modern literary spin-off, to have heard of Wife of Bath” https://t.co/3n8jkv2vNz

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“Rooney is always very good on the power balances of romance” — @john_self on Sally Rooney's Beautiful World Where Are You @FaberBooks https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/october-2021/the-satisfaction-of-small-pleasures/ https://t.co/OmobYdmk9U

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“John Locke certainly considered that the Civil Wars could have been avoided “had men been more sparing of their ink”’ - @MirandaMalins⁩ reviews The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England Jonathan Healey (⁦@BloomsburyBooks⁩) https://t.co/Bx6r4y3EEu

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“Why does the corporal on page 303 become a colonel on page 304 in David McCloskey’s Damascus Station? Had all the very many thanked in the Acknowledgements simply been careless?” — Jeremy Black wonders if the entire plot was a stich https://t.co/7iKE3y7hUp