A search for what remains of the world’s extinct creatures.
Reviews: History
Reviews of history books.
Book review: ‘The Sea View Has Me Again’ by Patrick Wright
Uwe Johnson in Sheerness (1974–1984).
Book review: ‘Empire Antarctica’ by Gavin Francis
Ice, silence and emperor penguins.
Book review: ‘Tamed’ by Alice Roberts
Ten species that changed our world.
Book review: ‘Mountains of the Mind’ by Robert Macfarlane
A history of a fascination.
Book review: ‘Ghosts on the Shore’ by Paul Scraton
Travels along Germany’s Baltic coast.
Book review: ‘After Nature’ by W.G. Sebald
Three long-form poems, best read as prose.
Book review: ‘The Rings of Saturn’ by W.G. Sebald
An unclassifiable masterpiece.
Book review: ‘Vertigo’ by W.G. Sebald
File under ‘Sebaldian’.
Book review: ‘The Emigrants’ by W.G. Sebald
File under ‘Sebaldian’.