Richard Carter
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Charles Darwin reviews Jane Austen
A short piece to mark the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth.
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Book review: ‘Under the Sun: the letters of Bruce Chatwin’
The correspondence of an unusual and gifted writer.
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Book review: ‘Jesus Christ Kinski’ by Benjamin Myers
A novel about a film about a performance about Jesus.
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Book review: ‘Domination’ by Alice Roberts
How the Christian Church rose to prominence in the wake of the Roman Empire.
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Rich Text newsletter No. 37: ‘These people knew mammoths!’
Ice age art • Robert Macfarlane • Kathleen Jamie • medieval poems • lichen • Barbarian Conspiracy • the Shipping Forecast • escaping the entropy • and more…
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Book review: ‘The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem’ by Jeremy Noel-Tod
An anthology of poems without line breaks.
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Book review: ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’ by Simon Armitage
An excellent alliterative translation of a medieval masterpiece.
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Book review: ‘The Shortest History of Italy’ by Ross King
An excellent short history of an excellent country.
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Book review: ‘The Red Tenda of Bologna’ by John Berger
A short memoir-cum-essay on the city of Bologna and an enigmatic uncle.
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No cause for alarm
Don’t worry: I haven’t been taken seriously ill; I’ve just updated my profile photo.
