Date posted: June 29, 2008
The Unknown Terrorist feels very contemporary and has a great sense of urgency.
Date posted: March 3, 2008
The first few days after I had finished reading Will Self’s The Book of Dave, I occasionally found myself mixing Mokni and Arpee, describing things as toyist when I meant fake and expecting people to understand when I asked them to meet me in a few units. But I’m slowly recovering. A bit of moto oil does miracles.
Date posted: October 21, 2007
The Invention of the World is a novel like no other. To say that it is ambitious is an understatement. But it succeeds in every aspect.
Date posted: January 28, 2007
I just finished reading "In Spite of the Gods. The Strange Rise of Modern India" by Edward Luce. It is the perfect companion to "China Shakes the World. The Rise of a Hungry Nation" by James Kynge. I don't think it's an accident both authors write for the Financial Times, which gives its journalists a lot of freedom. Apart from that its reputation, which its journalists help sustain, opens doors which may remain closed for other newspaper journalists.
Last update: July 23, 2008
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Gregory Clark: A Farewell to Alms. A Brief Economic History of the World
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Dani Rodrik: One Economics, Many Recipes. Globalization, Institutions and Economic Growth
Bill Bryson: A Short History of Nearly Everything
Alan Weisman: The World Without Us
Jeffrey Sachs: Common Wealth. Economics for a Crowded Planet
Dan Ariely: Predictably Irrational
Richard Flanagan: The Unknown Terrorist
Jonathan Culler: Literary Theory. A Very Short Introduction
Pascal Mercier: Night Train to Lisbon
J.G. Ballard: The Atrocity Exhibition
Marshall McLuhan: Understanding Media
Tim Harford: The Logic of life
Nathan Englander: The Ministry of Special Cases
Ray Jackendoff: Foundations of Language
Marshall McLuhan: The Medium is the Massage
Saskia Sassen: A Sociology of Globalization
Pankaj Mishra: Temptations of the West. How to be Modern in India, Pakistan and Beyond
Pavan K. Varma: Being Indian. Inside the Real India
Sarah Murray: Moveable Feasts. The Incredible Journeys of the Things We Eat
Dave Eggers: What is the What
Umberto Eco: On Ugliness
Marisha Pessl: Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Jacques Ranciere: The Politics of Aesthetics
Olivier Rolin: L'invention du Monde
George Zhibin Gu: China and the New World Order
Julian Stallabrass: Art Incorporated
Saskia Sassen: Territory, Authority, Rights. From Medieval to Global Assemblages
Cormac McCarthy: The Road
Zygmunt Bauman: Consuming Life
Don DeLillo: Valparaiso
Rem Koolhaas: Delirious New York
Frédéric Beigbeder: 99 francs (€ 14:99)
Paul Collier: The Bottom Billion. Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
Don DeLillo: Americana
Tim Harford: The Undercover Economist
Marc Levinson: The Box. How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
Zygmunt Bauman: Liquid Modernity
Peter Sloterdijk: Im Weltinnenraum des Kapitals
Orhan Pamuk: Snow
Haruki Murakami: Kafka on the Shore
Toni Morrison: Beloved
Kiran Desai: The Inheritance of Loss
Edward Luce: In Spite of the Gods. The Strange Rise of Modern India
Patricia Highsmith: The Talented Mr Ripley
Jared Diamond: Collapse
Peter Sloterdijk: Sphären
Slavoj Zizek: The Parallax View
James Kynge: China Shakes the World. The Rise of a Hungry Nation
Mari Akasaka: Vibrator
Ali Smith: The Accidental
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner: Freakonomics
John Kennedy Toole: A Confederacy of Dunces
Truman Capote: In Cold Blood
J.M. Coetzee: Youth
Bret Easton Ellis: Less Than Zero
Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
Hélène Cixous: Stigmata. Escaping Texts
J.D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye
Hunter S. Thompson: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Michel Houellebecq: La possibilité d'une ile
Henry Miller: Tropic of Cancer
Ian McEwan: Saturday
Mark Haddon: The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
Ian McEwan: Atonement
Orhan Pamuk: The Black Book
Bruno Latour: Reassembling the Social
Jean Baudrillard: The conspiracy of art
Georges Perec: W ou le souvenir d'enfance
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Michel Foucault: Discipline and Punish
Michel Foucault: The archeology of knowledge
DBC Pierre: Vernon God Little
Yann Martel: Life of Pi
Jared Diamond: Guns: Germs and Steel
Zadie Smith: White Teeth
J.M. Coetzee: Disgrace
Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children
Alan Hollinghurst: The Line of Beauty
Philip Roth: Portnoy's Complaint
J.M. Coetzee: Elizabeth Costello
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