&quot;Seminar&quot; (i.e., lots of quite learned but accessible blog posts by smart people, including replies by Francis Spufford himself) on the book at Crooked Timber (collaborative academic-ish blog): <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;crookedtimber.org&#x2F;category&#x2F;red-plenty-seminar&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;crookedtimber.org&#x2F;category&#x2F;red-plenty-seminar&#x2F;</a>. I particularly liked Cosma Shalizi&#x27;s post at the start of the second page.