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Taproot: A newsletter on literature and culture

Leo Robson

books, films, intellectual history, the creative process

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Latest Issues

American film writing c.2026

My first contribution to The Ideas Letter considers the work of the reviewer and essayist A S Hamrah in the context of recent American film criticism. It appears as the lead piece in the ‘Terms of Art’ issue, under the title ‘He Lost It At...

5 days ago

Notes on Hamrah

Here is my first contribution to The Ideas Letter. It looks at the work of the reviewer and essayist A S Hamrah in the context of contemporary American film criticism, and appears as the lead piece in the ‘Terms of Art’ issue, under the tit...

5 days ago
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Inexpensive London bookshop event – Tuesday

I shall be chatting to the celebrated and very cool Chile-born Norwegian writer Pedro Carmona-Alvarez about his newly translated novel Chiquitita on Tuesday at Veranda Books in Marylebone, a great part of London, easily reached

7 Seymour...

13 days ago
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Nabokov essay redivivus

It was brought to my attention, partly by me, that my very old piece on Nabokov, drawing on the complete reprinting of his work by Penguin Modern Classics but mainly concerned with two teasing – and amazing – books Pale Fire and Ada, is no...

21 days ago
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Carnivalesque Barker

I have an article in the latest – very new – issue of London Review of Books about Nicola Barker, an extraordinarily accomplished and varied English fiction writer who often seems to be laughing. . .

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n06...

2 months ago
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