April 2017
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‘Spiritual’ won’t do
In which I seek a better word to describe a profoundly uplifting sensation.
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Book review: ‘Built on Bones’ by Brenna Hassett
15,000 years of urban life and death.
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Book review: ‘Pilgrim at Tinker Creek’ by Annie Dillard
Pulitzer-Prize-winning ruminations on the natural world.
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Book review: ‘Selected Letters of Philip Larkin’ (Anthony Thwaite, ed.)
Hugely entertaining correspondence from one of Britain’s most popular poets.
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Undermining religious tradition: a time-honoured religious tradition
Religious tradition has been being ‘undermined’ in Britain since recorded history began—most of the time by people of a distinctly religious persuasion.