Karen Shook

@TimesHigherArts

Books Editor at Times Higher Education. Honoured to display brilliant peer reviews of new academic books before your very eyes. Views own; occasionally wobbly.

London
timeshighereducation.co.uk
Joined June 2011
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  1. 12 hours ago

    Waiting for my transformation into a man through the power of bubble bath

    11:15 AM - 10 May 2016 · Details
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  2. 14 hours ago

    Wow. just canceled 2116 subscriptions. Citing "the greed of publishers" as one of the reasons.

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  3. 12 hours ago

    Dorling: the British export 1000s of their elderly per year to rely on other countries' health and social services

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  4. 12 hours ago

    "Normal people celebrate population growth and people coming in to the country. We're not normal".

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  5. 12 hours ago

    Danny Dorling:'The UK has the widest inequality in the EU as the best-off 10% take 28% of all income'

    10:50 AM - 10 May 2016 · Details
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  6. 12 hours ago

    When you've publicly said something stupid and your mum's thinking of all the ways she's gonna woop your ass at home

    10:50 AM - 10 May 2016 · Details
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    12 hours ago

    . OW!

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    12 hours ago

    . Criss de calice de tabarnak d'osti de sacrament - of COURSE we let you swear!

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  9. 13 hours ago

    La police utilise des gaz lacrymo devant l'assemblée nationale. Les manifestants se protègent le visage.

    10:33 AM - 10 May 2016 · Details
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    13 hours ago

    OH NO. Unbelievable. The evil that men do lives on after their time in office.

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  11. 13 hours ago

    I'm pretty sure your department needs one of these. Use it wisely

    10:28 AM - 10 May 2016 · Details
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    13 hours ago

    &I'll give another plug, not that she needs it. How lucky am I to have the brilliant Cait MacPhee writing for me? VERY VERY LUCKY

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    15 hours ago

    . Yes indeed. Even more so if Toad had had access to 'disruptive tech' and rock-bottom pricing on chauffeured cars - just think!

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  14. 15 hours ago

    Just got PR for an Uber-for-washerwomen-services app; thinking of 's observations on the 21st cent return of the servant class

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  15. 15 hours ago

    For your friend who hates the world.

    7:41 AM - 10 May 2016 · Details
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  16. 15 hours ago

    'An absolutely extraordinary book': on Lab Girl by , our

    7:40 AM - 10 May 2016 · Details
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  17. 16 hours ago

    Je zou denken dat Cameron na 6 jaar als premier weet dat er draaiende cameras bestaan.....

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  18. 16 hours ago

    Overseen...

    7:36 AM - 10 May 2016 · Details
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  19. 16 hours ago

    Traffic is deadlier than terrorism.

    7:16 AM - 10 May 2016 · Details
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  20. 16 hours ago

    Piccadilly serendipity: when brilliant geographer met brilliant music writer/broadcaster

    7:11 AM - 10 May 2016 · Details
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  21. 20 hours ago

    The digital era: is it a good time for musicians? Erm, no. reviews Timothy Taylor's Music and Capitalism

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  22. 20 hours ago

    Academics: does your prose suffer from prepositional pudge, ad-dictions & waste words? Helen Sword's got the answer

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  23. 24 hours ago

    Women’s work is undervalued, as a whole and individually. Dawn Foster in Bristol 23 May

    11:14 PM - 9 May 2016 · Details
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  24. 21 hours ago

    What are you reading? My bibliovore massive hold forth on forbidden cities, WWI, JD Salinger and Colm Tóibín.

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  25. May 9

    Announcing: "Self-Publishing For Academics" - a new e-book by & me, out 18/5!

    7:02 AM - 9 May 2016 · Details
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  26. 22 hours ago

    The finalists of 'Britain's Sexiest Briton'. Worthing, 1923.

    1:21 AM - 10 May 2016 · Details
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  27. 22 hours ago

    A Body, Undone: Christina Crosby's memoir of traumatic injury, secrets, grief & desire

    1:02 AM - 10 May 2016 · Details
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  28. 22 hours ago

    What are you reading? My lovely scholarly contribs on English weather, Irish writers, Arab Spring & Chinese emperors

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  29. 22 hours ago

    Humphry Davy: scientist, enthusiast, genius, dandy, discoverer, philosopher, traveller.

    12:59 AM - 10 May 2016 · Details
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  31. May 9

    "Oh, I thought you said Iran" - John Chilcot, 7 July 2016

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    May 9

    . I find the site fascinating/repellent... Have you read RJB Bosworth's Whispering City: Rome & Its Histories? Great bit on EUR

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    May 9

    . Is Fendi's headquarters in Mussolini's EUR building? Che bella figura - not.

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  34. May 9

    I feel certain this happened on a Monday. Some Mondays, only a very big hammer will do.

    1949: 'Life' reported that Evangeline Sylvas smashed the water tank of a fellow burlesque star. (C. Life Magazine)
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  35. May 9

    You know you work in a Sociology Dept when you say 'The milk's off, it's a sign' & reply is 'Adorno would say that's a precursor to fascism'

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  36. May 9

    “I don't reveal skeletons that would hurt anyone. They may hurt the dead, but the dead belong to me.” —Anne Sexton

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  37. May 9

    Chris Kraus in the brilliant I Love Dick: 'Isn't scholarship just a stalking of the dead by people too stoned or scared to chase live bait?'

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  38. May 9

    After the disenchantment of the world: on Stephen Gaukroger's The Natural&the Human

    2:04 AM - 9 May 2016 · Details
  39. May 9

    The digital era has meant music makers working 'longer & harder', Timothy Taylor argues in Music and Capitalism

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  41. May 8

    “Your dresses should be tight enough to show you’re a woman, and loose enough to show you’re a lady.” - Edith Head

    1:17 PM - 8 May 2016 · Details
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  42. May 8

    Man of musical taste falls for my editorial wiles; writes great blog on giving great books to students

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  43. May 8

    'By the end, I was babbling about it to strangers': on Lab Girl by

    12:17 PM - 8 May 2016 · Details
  44. May 7

    Victorian sauce-pot

    2:42 PM - 7 May 2016 · Details
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  45. May 8

    Chris Kraus in I Love Dick: 'Isn't scholarship just a stalking of the dead by people who're too stoned or scared to chase live bait?'

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  46. May 8

    Comrades! If we all self-infantilize hard enough we'll bring the system down!

    4:45 AM - 8 May 2016 · Details
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  47. May 8

    That article on lack of working class access to acting so important,applies right across arts+culture. Support for a start!

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  48. May 6

    The British Library is operating in stark contradiction of its own rules.

    8:46 AM - 6 May 2016 · Details
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    May 6

    . Because Mr Cohen*, my physics teacher, was unbelievably creepy? *possibly a pseudonym

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