End of year post

A year of limited reading. Three books stood out: Peter Brown's Journeys of the Mind , Giorgio Agamben's Self-Portrait in the Studio , and WG Sebald's Silent Catastrophes . All feature in a post from July . Of the last, I was appalled by two reviews. In the FT , John Self says one should be pleased it exists "as long as you don't have to read it". Well I read it twice in short succession and…