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Book review: ‘Required Writing’ by Philip Larkin

Required reading.
Book review: ‘The Best of Me’ by David Sedaris

Humorous memoir anthology.
Book review: ‘Base Notes’ by Adelle Stripe

A tender, frank and funny memoir.
Book review: ‘In the Dark Room’ by Brian Dillon

A memoir on memory, loss, heirlooms, places, photographs and other remnants.
Hockney on Mars

Two David Hockney exhibitions provide a lesson in paying close attention.
Book review: ‘The Genetic Book of the Dead’ by Richard Dawkins

A Darwinian reverie.
Book review: ‘Is a River Alive?’ by Robert Macfarlane

Rivers as living entities: preposterous animism or a useful metaphor?
Book review: ‘Lifelines’ by Julian Hoffman

Searching for home in the mountains of Greece.
Book review: ‘The Celts’ by Alice Roberts

Searching for a civilisation.
Book review: ‘Under a Metal Sky’ by Philip Marsden

A journey through minerals, greed and wonder.
Book review: ‘Photography: a very short introduction’ by Steve Edwards

Thoughts on important photographic topics.
Book review: ‘See/Saw’ by Geoff Dyer

Looking at photographs.