A mix of recently received books – the new translations of Balzac’s Lost Souls and Derrida’s Clang from University of Minnesota Press in recompense for review work, and Dan Edelstein, Stefanos Geroulanos & Natascha Wheatley (eds.), Power and Time: Temporalities in Conflict and the Making of History, sent by University of Chicago Press. The others were bought second-hand, mainly for the Foucault work.