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Barbara Kingsolver: Unsheltered review - too many issues
Sunday, 14 October 2018
“When men fear the loss of what they know, they will follow any tyrant who promises to restore the old order.” Mary Treat, the real-life 19th-century botanist who is one of the characters in... Read more... |
Simon Sebag Montefiore: Written in History review - epistolary high points
Sunday, 07 October 2018
Humdinger! This is a totally brilliant idea for an amazing anthology, although the subtitle “Letters that Changed... Read more... |
Neil MacGregor: Living with the Gods review - focuses of belief
Sunday, 23 September 2018
Dip in, dip out, argue, agree and disagree: Living with the Gods is the newest manifestation of a rich multimedia format that keeps on giving, devised by that superb writer and lecturer,... Read more... |
Lavinia Greenlaw: In the City of Love’s Sleep review - curated lives
Sunday, 23 September 2018
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Olga Tokarczuk: Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead review - on vengeful nature
Sunday, 09 September 2018
In a small town on the Polish-Czech border where the mobile signal wanders between countries’ operators and only three inhabitants stick it out through the winter, animals are wreaking a terrible... Read more... |
Michael Hughes: Country review - epic troubles
Sunday, 02 September 2018
Michael Hughes’ second novel, superimposing the post-96 Troubles on the story of The Iliad, rides a wave of Homeric re-tellings, with Pat Barker and Colm Tóibín having recently... Read more... |
Yuval Noah Harari: 21 Lessons for the 21st Century review - a sceptic's optimism?
Sunday, 26 August 2018
The bestseller Sapiens (2011, first published in English in 2014) by the hitherto little-known Israeli academic Yuval Noah Harari has sold enormously well, and justly so: recommended by... Read more... |
P.E.Caquet: The Bell of Treason review - the sacrifice of Czechoslovakia
Sunday, 26 August 2018
It was 80 years ago next month that Neville Chamberlain returned with the good news of peace in our time... Read more... |
h 100 Awards: Publishing and Writing - other stories, other voices
Monday, 20 August 2018
If history repeats itself, better hope that it corrects its mistakes as well. This year’s nominations for the... Read more... |
Roger Scruton: Music as an Art review - how to listen?
Sunday, 19 August 2018
Hegel, Kant, David Hume, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Leibniz are all adduced, referred to, and paraphrased, and that’s just for starters. Add Rameau, Schubert, Beethoven, Benjamin Britten and the... Read more... |
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