Writing tagged: ‘correspondence’
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LRB letter: ‘The reaction economy’
On Charles Darwin’s use of photography in his book about human and animal emotions.
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Cambridge Darwin pilgrimage
A trip to see a treasure-trove of Darwinalia.
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Book review: ‘84, Charing Cross Road‘ by Helene Hanff
A book-lovers’ classic.
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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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LRB letter: ‘Weather-forecasting frogs’
On the unlikely 17th and 18th-century German fashion of keeping tree frogs to forecast the weather.
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LRB letter: ‘Ancient Refrigerators’
A possible solution to a well-known conundrum about Ancient Rome.
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LRB letter: ‘Darwin’s Flatulence’
How Charles Darwin’s legendary flatulence wasn’t all it’s cracked up to be.