Books
No call a man dead til you bury him
Death is big business in parts of the Caribbean. In the Jamaican capital of Kingston, funeral homes with their plastic…
All money is in cyberspace anyway
Bitcoins are digital money ‘mined’ from satanically difficult mathematical problems. Madness, obviously. But five years ago, while the rest of…
Skirmishes on the home front
You might be forgiven for thinking that there is no need for yet another book about Margot Asquith. Her War…
Language
And when I landed in America, aged ten, I knew the language was the same. And yet At once the…
Algerian dystopia
On the surface Harraga is the story of two ill-matched women colliding dramatically, with life-changing consequences. What emerges, in throwaway…
From patient to doctor
Sabina Spielrein was a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst with groundbreaking ideas about the role of the reproductive drive in human psychology…
Title Stories: Utopia by Thomas More
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The daily grind of the hunter-gather
In the early days of Victorian railways, train journeys were (rightly) considered so dangerous that ticket offices sold life insurance…
First Day of Spring in Bath
Quick-flowing creamy light and all cohering: Faux fanes in gardens, Nash and Wesley’s shades, Gold, gaily weighty houses, rocketing sky,…
Shock jock
A senior Minister in the NSW government of John Fahey once told me that there was a vacant metaphorical chair…
Children’s books for Christmas
If it’s all right with you, I’d like to launch a campaign please. Right here. You may be wanting me…
Language
And when I landed in America, aged ten, I knew the language was the same. And yet At once the…
First Day of Spring in Bath
Quick-flowing creamy light and all cohering: Faux fanes in gardens, Nash and Wesley’s shades, Gold, gaily weighty houses, rocketing sky,…
Title Stories: Utopia by Thomas More
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Children’s books for Christmas
If it’s all right with you, I’d like to launch a campaign please. Right here. You may be wanting me…
Language
And when I landed in America, aged ten, I knew the language was the same. And yet At once the…
First Day of Spring in Bath
Quick-flowing creamy light and all cohering: Faux fanes in gardens, Nash and Wesley’s shades, Gold, gaily weighty houses, rocketing sky,…
Title Stories: Utopia by Thomas More
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Books of the Year
A further selection of the best and most overrated books of 2014, chosen by some of our regular reviewers
The wandering Jew
Stefan Zweig wasn’t, to be honest, a very good writer. This delicious fact was hugged to themselves by most of…
Scotland the brave
In 1707 Scotland surrendered what it had of its independence by the Treaty of Union with England. That independence had…
Gloriana waits and sees
Women are ‘foolish, wanton flibbergibs, in every way doltified with the dregs of the devil’s dunghill’. So a cleric reminded…
A choice of humorous books
Nancy Mitford would not call them ‘toilet books’, that’s for certain. Loo books? Lavatory books? One or two people I…
The driving force of an ageing rocker
Why do people talk about ‘experimenting’ with drugs when mostly they just mean that they’re doing them? Perhaps, as I…
