Reviews

Books:

– Giorgio Agamben’s The Man Without Content: Part I and Part II

– Alain Badiou’s The Communist Hypothesis: Part I and Part II

– Zygmunt Bauman’s Does Ethics Have a Chance in a World of Consumers?: Part I and Part II

– Zygmunt Bauman’s  Liquid Modernity Part I, Part II

– Noam Chomsky’s Hopes and Prospects: Part I and Part II

– Susan J. Douglas’s Enlightened Sexism

– Terry Eagleton’s On Evil: Part I and Part II

– Terry Eagleton’s Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Part I and Part II

– Terry Eagleton’s Why Marx Was Right, Part I, Part II

– Ken Follett’s Fall of Giants: Part I and Part II

– Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom: Part I and Part II

– Tana French’s Faithful Place

– Selina Hastings’s The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham: Part I and Part II

– Laura Lippman’s Hardly Knew Her

– Neil McKenna’s The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde

– Eduardo Mendoza’s Riña de gatos. Madrid, 1936

– Markos Moulitsas’s American Taliban

– Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight

– V. S. Naipaul’s A Bend in the River

– Ruth Rendell’s Tigerlily’s Orchids

– Christina Stead’s The Man Who Loved Children

– Slavoj Žižek’s Living in the End Times: Part I and Part II.

– Slavoj Žižek’s On Belief: Part I and Part II

Movies:

– Black Swan
– Inception
– Steel Magnolias
– The Adjustment Bureau
– The Motorcycle Diaries
– Imitation Game

Restaurants:

Coco Louco Restaurant in St. Louis (Brazilian cuisine)

Essence Restaurant in Montreal

Lunella Ristorante in New York (Italian cuisine)

The Modern Restaurant in New York (very high-priced)

Shodan Restaurant in Montreal (Japanese cuisine, very high-priced)

Domus Cafe, Ottawa, Canada (contemporary Canadian cuisine, high-priced)

Ellefsen Cafe, Montreal, Canada (Scandinavian cuisine, budget prices)

Le filet, Montréal, Canada (tapas – sized dishes, contemporary with Japanese influence)