An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida, by Peter Salmon
Devorah Baum applauds a timely attempt to take on the naysayers and give the French philosopher his due
Devorah Baum applauds a timely attempt to take on the naysayers and give the French philosopher his due
I look forward to reading Devorah Baum’s book The Jewish Joke (“Painfully funny”, Features, 26 October) and hope that it contains not only jokes but some sharp repartee. Such as: “You haven’t asked...
Devorah Baum is fascinated by a look at how politics needs to take much greater account of the experiences of early childhood
I’m afraid Devorah Baum’s joke about Cohen, a Jew in Berlin in 1933, and Hitler “having lunch” (“Painfully funny”, Feature, 26 October) doesn’t do it for me. In narrative jokes, the key to the art of...
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