Essays
Reviews of books of essays and opinion pieces.
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Book review: ‘Campo Santo’ by W. G. Sebald
A posthumous Selbaldian collection.
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Book review: ‘No Straight Road Takes You There’ by Rebecca Solnit
Don’t be put off trying to make a better world… Keep going!
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Book review: ‘Men Explain Things to Me’ by Rebecca Solnit
Essays on feminism for everyone.
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Book review: ‘The Gifts of Reading’ by Robert Macfarlane
The joy of giving books as presents.
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Book review: ‘The Red Tenda of Bologna’ by John Berger
A short memoir-cum-essay on the city of Bologna and an enigmatic uncle.
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Book review: ‘Required Writing’ by Philip Larkin
Required reading.
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Book review: ‘See/Saw’ by Geoff Dyer
Looking at photographs.
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Book review: ‘The Essays: a selection’ by Michel de Montaigne
Classic personal essays from the man who established the genre.
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Book review: ‘The View in Winter’ by Ronald Blythe
Reflections on old age.
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Book review: ‘Why We Read’ by Josephine Greywoode (ed.)
Seventy writers on factual writing.
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Book review: ‘Cairn’ by Kathleen Jamie
Magnificent short pieces about entering a new phase in one’s life.
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Book review: ‘Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World’ by Barry Lopez
A thoughtfully observed posthumous collection of essays.