Obstupefacting Excrescences.

I don t normally make separate posts for different reviews of the same book, but Colin Burrow s LRB review (9 July 2026; archived) of Arnoud Visser s On Pedantry has so little in common with Clare Bucknell s for the NYRB (LH), and it s so frabjously expressive in and of itself, that I can t resist presenting it on [ ]