Who Will Save Us?
Our House is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis, by Malena and Beata Ernman and Svante and Greta Thunberg, Allen Lane, 279 pp, £16.99, ISBN: 978-0241446737 The coronavirus ‑ but no....
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Country Music: A Film by Ken Burns, Ken Burns, Dayton Duncan and Julie Dunfey, PBS Long years ago, I happened to spend a weekend in a place called Big Cove, outside the town of Cherokee, North...
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The Peripheral, by William Gibson, Penguin, 496 pp, £8.99, ISBN: 978-0241961001Agency, by William Gibson, Viking, 416pp, £8.99, ISBN 978-0241237212Hegel on Possibility: Dialectics, Contradiction, and...
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Adaptation and the Origin of Species from the Nineteenth Century through Punctuated Equilibria and Beyond, by Niles Eldredge, Columbia University Press, 416 pp, €35, ISBN 978-0231153164 This is a...
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My favourite teacher at university, Professor John Gould, was a socialist (this was and probably still is unusual in a Classics department) and he liked to use Yeats as an example of how someone’s work...
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I Wanna Be Yours, by John Cooper Clarke, Picador, £20, 480 pp, ISBN: 978-1509896103 The Sir George Robey. London. 1995. A scruff gathering of fans stands before a black line of a man motor-mouthing...
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Francis Bacon: Revelations, by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan, William Collins, 880 pp, £30, ISBN: 978-0007298419 Biographies are tricky things ‑ and of course it’s extreme cheek on my part since...
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Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 1): 1918-38, Simon Heffer (ed), Hutchinson, 1.024 pp, £35, ISBN: 978-1786331816 Henry “Chip” Channon was a man who achieved very little on his own in life but...
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See Here
See/Saw: Looking at Photographs, by Geoff Dyer, Canongate, 336 pp, £25, ISBN: 978-1644450444 The pleasure of text is rivalled by the pleasure of feeling reasonably well-versed in the audio/visual arts....
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Italian Neorealism: A Cultural History, by Charles L Leavitt IV, University of Toronto Press, 328 pp, $63.75, ISBN: 978-1487507107 Some years ago a friend brought us to see the town of Acitrezza in...
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