viragohaus's reviews
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An incredible book but one that does not stand on its own.
Carson's light-touch erudition is completely at play but this does not prevent some of Red Doc>'s chief pleasures coming from a reader's knowledge of Autobiography of Red. Even given that, the later volume is simply not as peerlessly successful as AoR (what could be?).
My reservations/joys with Red Doc> were more than ably captured by Parul Sehgal in her Bookforum review.

'Alive with an energetic interest in masculine temperaments'
Read the rest of my review here:
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/chris-flynns-carnival-delivers-an-energetic-ride-20140623-zsgb1.html

Philosophers occupy a diffident space in Australian public life. No antipodean philosopher dominates debates here in the manner of Europeans like Slavoj Žižek or Bernard-Henri Lévy, gesticulating freely between quick swallows of black coffee. Perhaps the Anglophone reluctance to teach philosophy prior to university explains this; we lack the context of a philosophical education to quite trust how philosophers might frame things.

Read the rest of my review here: The Newtown Review of Books

Me on Ben Lerner's second novel '10:04' http://m.smh.com.au/entertainment/real-life-invades-the-second-novel-of-wunderkind-ben-lerners-1004-20150105-12i0tx.html

http://www.killyourdarlingsjournal.com/2015/02/survival-contradiction-jacqueline-rose/

'Found Letter' led me to buy this collection and it towers over everything else here.

Composed of 240 fragments around the permutations of blue, Nelson's lyrical, bare consideration of depression, sex, music, cornflowers, doubt, colour and more is personal and vast.