This is my review of ‘How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read’ by Pierre Bayard, written for Amazon a few years ago: As I was reading this book I was agreeing with a review I had read that suggested that its content was far more serious, more profound even, than its provocatively silly title Read the full article…
Monthly Archives: July 2015
Rhetoric, metaphor and topical British politics
Although I usually bang on about politics in a different forum, today’s Guardian contains two very interesting articles on rhetoric, metaphor and the current political scene in Britain which seem worthy of comment here.. Firstly, Deborah Orr is genuinely full of praise for 20-year old Mhairi Black whose maiden speech this week ricocheted around the internet. Read the full article…