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Officially buzzing
After a frustrating six months, progress on my book is emerging from the doldrums!
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Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 14 • 1866’
Getting back to work after prolonged illness.
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Book review: ‘Knowing What We Know’ by Simon Winchester
The transmission of knowledge from ancient wisdom to modern magic.
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Book review: ‘A Book Of Days’ by Patti Smith
Words and images from an inspirational artist.
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My makeshift desks
In which I unwittingly mimic my hero with the aid of an old chopping board.
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Book review: ‘The Creative Act’ by Rick Rubin
A way of being.
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Book Review: ‘Aftermath’ by Harald Jähner
Life in the fallout of the Third Reich.
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Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 13 • 1865 plus supplement (1822–1864)’
Yet more ill-heath, with slow progress on Darwin’s ‘big book’.
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Book Review: ‘Radical By Nature’ by James T. Costa
The revolutionary life of Alfred Russel Wallace.
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Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 12 • 1864’
More sickness, more botany.
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Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 11 • 1863’
Six months of illness, and lots of botany.
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LRB letter: ‘The reaction economy’
On Charles Darwin’s use of photography in his book about human and animal emotions.