Reviews
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Book Review: ‘The Book of Alchemy’ by Suleika Jaouad
A creative practice for an inspired life.
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Book Review: ‘Marcus Aurelius Meditations: the annotated edition’
The private philosophical notebooks of a Second-Century Roman Emperor.
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Book Review: ‘Romanticism: a very short introduction’ by Michael Ferber
A useful guide to what make the Romantics tick.
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Book Review: ‘Further Requirements’ by Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin interviews, broadcasts, statements and book reviews, 1952–1985.
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Book Review: ‘The Age of Wonder:’ by Richard Holmes
How the Romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science.
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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.