Walter Benjamin – Richard Carter

Book review: ‘Illuminations’ by Walter Benjamin

An eclectic collection of high-brow essays.

Newsletter No. 28: ‘Breaking my golden rule’
Thoughts on nature writing · Richard Feynman · Vikings! · Bronze Age diets · recovered daguerreotypes · transit of Phobos · Alice Roberts · Cal Flyn
Newsletter No. 27: ‘Getting hitched’
The Pros and Cons of tying the knot · prehistoric invention · Ernest Shackleton · W.G. Sebald · swallows · comma splices · Amy Liptrot · Kapka Kassabova
Newsletter No. 26: ‘Slits for pupils’
Research triage · filing your nuggets · pupil shapes · Amy Liptrot · moths and bats · critical reading · early medieval history · Tim Dee · book reviews