Monthly Archives: March 2010

Who was Jacques Derrida?

March 7, 2010 – 4:29 pm

This review of David Mikics’s Who Was Jacques Derrida? appeared in the February edition of the Literary Review.
WHO WAS JACQUES DERRIDA: AN INTELLECTUAL BIOGRAPHY
David Mikics
Yale University Press, £25
Review by Jonathan Derbyshire
The American philosopher Stanley Cavell once observed drily that the reputation of his French counterpart Jacques Derrida deserved a ‘finer fate than its detractors wish[ed] [...]

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Disgrace

March 7, 2010 – 4:22 pm

This review of Steve Jacobs’ cinematic adaptation of J.M. Coetzee’s novel Disgrace appeared in the December-January edition of the Literary Review.
CRIMES OF THE PAST
Disgrace
Dir Steve Jacobs
(120 mins Australia/South Africa 2008)
J M Coetzee’s 1999 Booker Prize-winning novel takes its title from not one, but two instances of disgrace. In the first, David Lurie, a [...]

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Bits and pieces

March 7, 2010 – 4:14 pm

The following articles appeared in the New Statesman over the past couple of months:
A contribution to the NS’s dissection of the decade in culture.
A piece about modernism and the black American diaspora.
A profile of Iain Duncan Smith in the NS’s special Tories issue.

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