Not much up here lately, but a lot in the background going on. I give some links to recent reviews at my main site, mike-duffy.com, and I'll reproduce them here:
A review of Professor Borges for the Los Angeles Review of Books,
A review of J.M. Coetzee's strange new novel The Childhood of Jesus, for The Millions,
and a review of Jay Neugeboren's novel for Moment Magazine.
I also have a take on Julian Barnes' new work Levels of Life (or, rather, a take on the takes), at my site.
There are more reviews in the works -- a short little solid one on Kafka's "Metamorphosis" being the next. You can keep up to date with my work by checking out my twitter feed or page.
Here, I plan on getting into some Wittgenstein, perhaps, as I'm making my way through the Logical Investigations lately (more like, finally -- I should have gotten around to it long ago), among other things (perhaps Sense and Sensibilia by J.L. Austin, too).
As usual, nothing too new probably to say on this front--certainly nothing as new as other blogs will have to say. But I console myself by reflecting that philosophy is only new anyway when you dip back into it, ask the old questions and try to bring some life into them. That is, when you do something, when you get going and put it into action. If the results are obvious, the process of going about attaining them will--if you've done it right--not have been. And, if you're lucky, never have been.
