Writing tagged: ‘W.G. Sebald’
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Book Review: ‘Threads’ by Julia Blackburn
The Delicate Life of John Craske.
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Book review: ‘M Train’ by Patti Smith
A fascinating exercise in ‘writing about nothing’.
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The seahorse and the pelican
How a passage from W.G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn might give a clue to some family history.
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Venice: a model for car-free living?
It is entirely possible, it turns out, for a city to function without cars and vans and lorries. Who would have thought it? But is it practical?
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Sebald’s TV listing
When you enter into Sebald’s universe, it seems to me, you have to play along.
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What I read in 2014
I read 36 books in 2014. This shows an uncharacteristic degree of consistency on my behalf.
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The Thomas Browne Affair
On the seventeenth-century polymath Sir Thomas Browne, and his tenuous connection with my local moor.
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The power of the anecdote
On the effectiveness of anecdotes and understatement in conveying catastrophic events.
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Books by or about W. G. Sebald
A list of Sebald-related books reviewed on this site.