The Obolus Book Blog

Grenadier Rudolf Koch, #01

With links to some German folk songs

Sep 11 • 

Andrew Rickard

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Grenadier Rudolf Koch

A typographer in the trenches

Sep 5 • 

Andrew Rickard

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August 2025

Soup Is Good Food

If you think "shrinkflation" is bad...

Aug 6 • 

Andrew Rickard

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July 2025

Henri Le Sidaner in Venice

"It is glorious and outmoded, magnificent and eroded, a heroic ruin."

Jul 23 • 

Andrew Rickard

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You Give Me Bad Dreams

Don't drop in next time you're passing

Jul 10 • 

Andrew Rickard

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June 2025

The Contract Between Artist and Public

You don’t expect to understand anything as important as art straight off, do you? I mean, this is pretty complex stuff.

Jun 26 • 

Andrew Rickard

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That Old-Fashioned Morphine

Miss Emma in the Belle Époque

Jun 12 • 

Andrew Rickard

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Revolutionary Talent

Too much monkey business

Jun 5 • 

Andrew Rickard

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May 2025

Jeanne Mammen

Living simply to paint wildly

May 29 • 

Andrew Rickard

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Are AI Slop Publishers Salting the Earth for Literary Translations?

Why yes, yes they are.

May 22 • 

Andrew Rickard

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Advice to Bibliophiles

A gourmet is not a glutton

May 14 • 

Andrew Rickard

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Céline on the Effects of Television

The brain is a muscle: it becomes flaccid.

May 7 • 

Andrew Rickard

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