I managed to read more than 240 books during 2024, and have identified (through a long, arduous process) my favourite fifteen novels: Murder You Wrote by LJM Owen (Ed) No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann The Birds by Daphne du Maurier The Silence Factory by Bridget Collins Half of a … Continue reading The end of 2024| Tasmanian Bibliophile @Large
‘A frenzy of polarization and misgovernance has engulfed American politics. Actors and institutions—on both sides of the political divide—are silencing disfavoured speech.’ As an Australian, I watch US politics with interest and have done so for over fifty years. More recently and especially during the last two presidential campaigns, I was never quite sure whether … Continue reading How America Works… and Why it Doesn’t: A Brief Guide to the US Political System by William Cooper| Tasmanian Bibliophile @Large