judgments

I’m currently researching the part of my dissertation where my engineers get prosecuted by the state. Or don’t, as the case may be. The jury (i.e. statistical analysis and close reading of documents) is still out, but it seems like they’ve been able to get away with a hell of a lot compared to what [...]

foreign literature update

Thanks again to everyone who wrote with non-English book suggestions! I’ve been quite bad at implementing them, I’m afraid. Russian foreign book market is such that it’s easier to get something by a winner of the last year’s Prix Goncourt than by Msr. Stendahl, and things are not helped by the fact that fiction-shopping reduces my [...]