Reviews
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Book review: ‘Inventing the Enemy’ by Umberto Eco
Essays on everything.
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Book Review: ‘The Year of Magical Thinking’ by Joan Didion
A remarkable account of a year spent grieving.
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Book Review: ‘The Savage Landscape’ by Cal Flyn
How we made the wilderness.
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Book Review: ‘The White Album’ by Joan Didion
New Journalism from the late-1960s and early 1970s.
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Book Review: ‘Dead and Alive’ by Zadie Smith
A fantastic essay collection.
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Book Review: ‘The Given World’ by Melissa Harrison
Things go out of kilter in the Welm Valley.
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Book Review: ‘Vertigo’ by Harald Jähner
The rise and fall of Weimar Germany, 1918–1933.
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Book Review: ‘Vivian Maier Developed’ by Ann Marks
The unearthed biography of a lauded photographic nanny.
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Book Review: ‘Landscapes’ by John Berger
An excellent essay collection on art and culture.
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Book Review: ‘Life Between the Tides’ by Adam Nicolson
In search of rockpools and other miracles.
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Book Review: ‘Enough Said’ by Alan Bennett
Bennett’s fourth volume of diaries.
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Book review: ‘On the Various Contrivances by which British and Foreign Orchids are Fertilised by Insects’ by Charles Darwin
Darwin answers his critics re. the evolution of complex adaptations.