Reviews

Book review: ‘In the Dark Room’ by Brian Dillon

A memoir on memory, loss, heirlooms, places, photographs and other remnants.
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.
Book review: ‘The Essays: a selection’ by Michel de Montaigne

Classic personal essays from the man who established the genre.
Book review: ‘The Keelie Hawk’ by Kathleen Jamie

Poems in Scots.
Book review: ‘The Ongoing Moment’ by Geoff Dyer

A book about photography.
Book review: ‘Camera Lucida’ by Roland Barthes

A grandiloquent analysis of our most accessible means of visual representation, the photograph.