SIMON CRITCHLEY
Recent Reviews
Question Everything
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Publishers Weekly (08/16/2022)
Bald
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The Times Literary Supplement (07/30/2021; print version)
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WSHU NPR (07/16/2021)
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (05/20/2021)
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Kirkus Reviews (04/13/2021)
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Reaction.life (04/24/2021)
Applydegger
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The Chronicle of Higher Education (04/28/2022)
Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us
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I Avgi (05/19/2023)
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Sparmatseto (12/30/2021)
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El País (04/03/2021)
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El País (12/20/2020)
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Letras Libres (12/01/2020)
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La Lettura (08/09/2020)
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LA Review of Books (05/25/2020)
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El País (05/13/2020)
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Washington Examine (3/26/2020)
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Chicago Review of Books (11/14/2019)
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Public Books (11/11/2019)
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The Millions (11/8/2019)
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The New York Review of Books (James Romm critically discusses Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us and Jacques Jouanna's Sophocles [10/24/2019])
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The FORMA Review (9/4/2019)
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The New Yorker's "Briefly Noted" (8/26/2019)
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The Times Literary Supplement (3/19/2019)
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NPR (4/18/2019)
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The Oxonian Review (6/7/2019)
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Booklist (3/1/2019)
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Kirkus Reviews (2/1/2019)
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Literary Hub (4/18/2019)
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Library Journal (2/1/2019)
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New Statesmean (5/1/2019)
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The Times (3/1/2019)
What We Think About When We Think About Football
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El País (3/29/2020)
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Salamanca RTV al día (01/10/2020)
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LA Review of Books (7/14/2018)
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Stavanger Aftenblad (6/30/2018)
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Dagbladet (6/30/2018)
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Klassekampen (6/30/2018)
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BLA (6/30/2018)
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Kultur (6/17/2018)
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Rampelys (6/15/2018)
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El País (6/9/2018)
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Marca (6/9/2018)
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AS 5 (6/9/2018)
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Euro Sport (6/9/2018)
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ABC (6/9/2018)
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Zeit Online (3/8/2018)
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It's Round and It's White (2/26/2018)
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Washington Post (12/20/2017)
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When Saturday Comes (1/1/2018)
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The Scotsman (12/6/2017)
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New York Times Review (12/3/2017)
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The Big Issue (11/27/2017)
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Reviewed by It's Round and It's White (11/21/2017)
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Reviewed by the Los Angeles Times (11/21/2017)
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Reviewed by The Wall Street Journal (11/17/2017)
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Reviewed by Rolling Stone. (10/31/2017)
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Publishers Weekly: Books of the Week, October 30, 2017 (10/30/2017)
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Reviewed by PW. (10/22/2017)
ABC of Impossibility
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Reviewed in The Hong Kong Review of Books. (05/20/2016)
The Stone Reader
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Reviewed in The Philosophers' Magazine. (01/08/2016)
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Selected by Iran Newspaper as one of top five influential books of philosophy in English. (01/10/2016)
The Problem with Levinas
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Reviewed in Philosophical Reviews. (02/2016)
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Reviewed in The Times Literary Supplement. (10/14/2015)
Notes on Suicide
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Reviewed in Mangialibri (July 2022)
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Reviewed in Books Special (07/14/2022)
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Reviewed in Medicina e Morale (07/06/2022)
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Reviewed in Glicine (07/02/2022)
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Reviewed in Il manifesto (06/07/2022)
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Reviewed in La ricerca (05/27/2022)
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Reviewed in Ibridamenti (05/10/2022)
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Reviewed in Gazzetta filosofica (05/04/2022)
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Reviewed in The Italian Review (04/10/2022)
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Reviewed in Carbonio Editore (04/03/2022)
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Reviewed in Satisfiction (03/17/2022)
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Reviewed in L'Indiscreto (03/16/2022)
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Reviewed in Los Angeles Review of Books (05/02/2021)
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Reviewed in Bibliobs. (05/13/2017)
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Reviewed in Le Temps. (05/12/2017)
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Reviewed in Le Monde des Religions. (05/2017)
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Reviewed in L'Humanité. (04/13/2017)
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Reviewed in Les InRocks (03/07/2017)
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Reviewed in Libération (03/03/2017)
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Reviewed in Le Monde (02/23/2017)
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Reviewed in French Culture (02/23/2017)
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Mentioned in Santé Mentale (02/20/2017)
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Reviewed in Philosophie Magazine (02/16/2017)
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Mentioned in Livres Hebdo (02/15/2017)
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Reviewed in La Nouvelle Quinzaine Littéraire (02/01/2017)
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Reviewed in The Irish Times (06/10/2016)
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Reviewed in El País. (02/29/2016)
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Reviewed in The Irish Times. (02/25/2016)
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Reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement. (02/17/2016)
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Reviewed at Review 31. (01/31/2016)
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Reviewed in El Español (01/28/2016)
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Reviewed at Vol. 1 Brooklyn. (11/03/2015)
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Reviewed in 3:AM Magazine. (09/30/2015)
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Reviewed in The Independent. (09/28/2015)
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Reviewed in Kirkus Reviews. (08/13/2015)
Memory Theatre
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Reviewed in Zeit (01/09/2020)
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Reviewed in The Los Angeles Review. (04/2016)
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Reviewed in The News-Gazette. (03/27/2016)
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Reviewed in The New York Review of Books. (01/14/2016)
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Named by The Believer a favorite book of 2015. (01/13/2016)
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Reviewed on Full Stop. (01/04/2016)
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Reviewed in Ploughshares. (01/01/2016)
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Reviewed by F.C. Brown Cloud. (12/28/2015)
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Reviewed in The New York Times. (12/16/2015)
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Reviewed in the Swedish newpaper Svenska Dagladet. (12/01/2015)
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Reviewed on Flavorwire. (11/30/2015)
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"Philosopher At Play: The Twisty Epiphanies Of 'Memory Theater'" on NPR Books. (11/24/2015)
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Reviewed in The Wall Street Journal. (11/13/2015)
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Reviewed in Music & Literature. (11/09/2015)
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Reviewed in Kirkus Reviews. (09/03/2015)
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'Figures libres. La mort parfaite n’existe pas'. Reviewed in Le Monde. (05/07/2015)
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Reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement by Matt Segnit, Jan. 16, 2015.
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Nova Benway reviews Simon Critchley's "Memory Theatre" in Bomb Magazine, issue 130, Winter 2015
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Review by Brian Dillon in Art Review, December 2014 issue. (12/01/2014)
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Bowie
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La Jornada (03/13/2022)
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Reviewed in Philosophy Now. (02/2017)
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Reviewed in The Believer. (01/10/2017)
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Reviewed in alfabeta2. (01/07/2017)
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Reviewed in the London Review of Books by Ian Penman. (01/05/2017)
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Reviewed in Corriere di Bologna. (12/08/2016)
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Reviewed in L'Adige. (11/28/2017)
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Listed as a best book of the year at The Spectator. (11/2016)
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Reviewed at the Danish publication, Gaffa. (06/04/2016)
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Reviewed at El Plural. (06/07/2016)
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Reviewed in the Spanish language journal, Libertad Digital. (05/30/2016)
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Reviewed at Off the Tracks. (01/27/2016)
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An illustrated review appears at The Rumpus. (01/22/2016)
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Reviewed at the French site, Nonfiction. (01/15/2016)
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"Requiem for David Bowie, Master of Cosmic Salutations" in Vanity Fair. (01/12/2016)
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"The Rumpus Remembers David Bowie." (01/12/2016)
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"In praise of David Bowie's Nihilism" at the New Republic. (01/11/2016)
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'Bowie by Critchley' reviewed by Charlie Jack Joseph Kruger on Last Word Blog. (03/17/2015)
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David Bowie's Radicalism. A review posted on In These Times by Sarah Jaffe. (09/25/2014)
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Reviewed on Nomadic Sojourns Creative Collective by Michaela Mullin (07/28/2014)
Stay Illusion! The Hamlet Doctrine
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"Opheliacs at large", a review by Katharine Craik in the Times Literary Supplement (04/23/2014)
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"Skam, handling – och prins Hamlet" The Hamlet Doctrine review by Axel Andersson in the Arbetaren (week of 03.16.14-03.22.14)
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'Getting inside Hamlet’s head'. A review in The Irish Times by Brian Dillon. (03/14/2014)
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'The Nietzsche Doctrine', a review of the Stay Illusion!: Hamlet Doctrine by Andrew Lanham in the LA Review of Books (02/08/2014)
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Outsider view of the ultimate loner. Review on Morning Star (12/11/2013)
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Patrícia Vieira and Michael Marder on Stay, Illusion!, The Anatomy of Disgust in the LA Review of Books (11/14/2013)
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Eternal Blazon, a review by Sam Sacks in Open Letters Monthly.
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Punk attitude and high theory conjoin to revise our views of the theatre's greatest ditherer. A review in the Independent.
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Ten Books about Nothing, London Review of Books Bookshop list including The Hamlet Doctrine.
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To Be or Knot to Be, review by Adam Phillips in the London Review of Books 10/10/2013
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The Hamlet Doctrine: Knowing Too Much, Doing Nothing, featured in 'Books in Brief' section of The New Statesman
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It's time to make Shakespeare dangerous. Article by Simon Critchley in the Guardian on The Hamlet Doctrine
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Hamlet: A Love Story, review in the New Yorker by Joshua Rotman (08/14/2013)
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A Play that Puzzles the Will, review in The Wall Street Journal (07/28/13)
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Review in Macleans (07/05/13)
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9 Things You Can Learn From 'Hamlet', review in the Huffington Post (07/01/13)
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Salon review by Laura Miller: A slim, invigorating new book offers fresh ways to look at the most famous work in Western literature (06/23/13)
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Review in Book Slut (05/13)
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Review in Booklist (04/16/13)
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Review in Publishers Weekly (04/08/2013)
The Faith of the Faithless
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Reviewed on the Henry Hates tumblr on 06/19/2014.
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Love is Stronger than Debt: A review by Books and Culture of Critchley's Faith of the Faithless and David Graeber's Debt: The First 5,000 Years
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'Penetrating philosopher loves a paradox' in The Australian
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The Faith of the Faithless: Experiments in Political Theology in Publishers Weekly
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The Faith of the Faithless by Simon Critchley, The Guardian
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Tea with Simon Critchley: The Separation of Church and State Is Impossible, discussion on Faith of the Faithless in The New Yorker
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The Faith of the Faithless review in Times Higher Education
Impossible Objects
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We Make Meaning: Politics of Resistance and the Work of Simon Critchley in 'Impossible Objects' in Pop Matters
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The Problem of Doing Something, review of Impossible Objects and The Faith of the Faithless by Tom Cutterham in the Oxonian Review
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Pursuing Impossible Objects: An Interview with Simon Critchley by John Douglas Millar in Monthly Review
The Book of Dead Philosophers
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Simon discusses death and dying in El País (05/10/2020)
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A Danish review in Information
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Pick of the Paperbacks Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' in The Telegraph
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Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' in The Independent
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Essay on 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' in The Nation
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Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' in The Independent
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Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' in The Observer
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Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' in The Guardian
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'The Book of Dead Philosopher's' reaches #9 on the Athen's Voice Best Seller List
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Aprender a vivir Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' for La Vanguardia.es
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Come muoiono i filosofi Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' for Guide.Supereva.it
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το βιβλίο των νεκρών φιλοσόφων Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' (Greek Translation)
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Είμαστε όλοι Νεκροναύτες Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' (Greek Translation)
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θεωρία να φύγουμε Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' (Greek Translation)
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Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' - for Amazon.com's Best Books of the Year So Far 2009
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Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' for De Standaard.be
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Il saggio Di filosofia non si vive, ma di certo si muore Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' for il Giornale.it
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Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' for Christiantoday.com
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On the Death of Med-Tech — and the Fear of Dying Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' for Medical Device Daily Perspectives.com
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What's the Meaning of Life? Turn to the Last Page Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' for The Washington Post
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Don’t Fear the Reaper Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' for TheSecondPass.com
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The Dead Philosopher's Society Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' for TheDay.com
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Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' for The San Francisco Chronicle
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Notable books: 'Dead Philosophers' Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' for Azcentral.com
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Let Death Change Your Life Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' for Salon.com
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Exit Wisely Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' in The New York Observer
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Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' for Blogcritics.com
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Dead Head - Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' in Time Out New York
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Death: Bad? - Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' in The New York Times
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Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' for Playbackstl.com
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Simon Critchley Explains What Happens After We Die - Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' for Flavorwire.com
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Dead Books, Dead Bodies - Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' for Bookslut
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New in Paperback - Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' in USA Today
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New in Paperback - Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' in January Magazine
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Dying and Death: When You Sort It Out, What’s It All About, Diogenes? - Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' in The New York Times
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Death and Praxis - Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' in VeryShortList.com
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Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' in Booklist
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Nonfiction Reviews Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' in Publisher's Weekly
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Books of the year 2008 Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' in New Statesman
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Has Bad Philosophy Killed the Booker Prize? - Comments on Simon Critchley' in The Guardian
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Famous Last Words: Notes from the Philosophers' Graveyard - Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' in The Independent
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Laugh, If Your Death Mask Will Allow It - Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' in The Daily Telegraph
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Simon Critchley's Top 10 Philosophers' Deaths - On 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' in The Guardian
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Mortality Tales Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' in The Financial Times
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With Their Boots On Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' in The New Yorker
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The Small Matters of Life and Death Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' in The Age
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Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' in M/C Reviews
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Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' - in New Humanist
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Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' - in The Independent
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Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' - in The Guardian
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Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' - in The Australian
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Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' - in The Philosopher's Magazine