Reading: Ruth Mandel – Cosmopolitan Anxieties: Turkish Challenges to Citizenship and Belonging in Germany

Having somewhat fallen into reviewing what I’m reading instead of the intended writing about why I’m reading a particular book, herewith I attempt to return to the point of all this writing about reading. Ruth Mandel’s Cosmopolitan Anxieties: Turkish Challenges … Continue reading

Reading: Afsaneh Najmabadi — Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity

This book has been on my list for ages, so long I can’t even remember where I first read about it. Digging through my archives of every interesting article I’ve read in the past decade (yes, I am that committed … Continue reading

Reading: China Miéville — Between Equal Rights – A Marxist Theory of International Law

Normally something by China Miéville will be ingested by me in a matter of a couple of evenings. This one however, I’ve started three or four times, before putting it aside for more pleasurable books. So I begin again. Between Equal … Continue reading

Reading: David Graeber — Debt: The First 5000 Years

This is one I haven’t been able to pretend I wouldn’t eventually get hold of, having been greatly discussed on quite a few blogs I read. From anthropology to science-fiction, David Graeber’s Debt: The First 5000 Years has been peculiarly unavoidable … Continue reading

A Life Spent Searching – the Travels and Writing of Annemarie Schwarzenbach

It’s mainly the reason why every October I write about all the books I’ve read in the last year, that some remain in my thoughts. Isabel Cole’s translation of Annamarie Schwarzenbach’s All Roads are Open is one of these, as well … Continue reading