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Death comes to conference
It is 2022, and Phyl, after completing her univers...
Strings of her heart
Can a cello feel? Does it respond to the player wh...
Neighbourhood watch
Offer Waterman and Francis Outred have combined fo...
Who is the real puppet?
Fantasy, folly and frolic: those tutelary deities ...
Old-school cynicism
Having seen two productions of L’Avare (The Miser)...
Mud, blood and booze
Graeme Macrae Burnet’s fifth novel, A Case of Matr...
Right turn
In his farewell address of January 1989, President...
Give me your answer
Thirteen-year-old Briar and his younger sister Ros...
Not in the script
I first went to look at medieval manuscripts in Lo...
Cracks in the image
A revolutionary who critiqued Marx; a Christian wh...
Unsung heroines
Despite its title, Regan Penaluna’s How to Think L...
The taste for plain sailing
A book about peregrinations over the sea almost ha...
At home with the Vikings
The subjects of Embers of the Hands are Viking-age...
Britain’s brush with eugenics
In 1911 Karl Pearson became the first chair of eug...
It’s all in your head
In Gray Matters Theodore H. Schwartz offers a live...
Water world
The third and final instalment of N. A. M. Rodger’...
From sunshine to darkness
In 1962 Charmian Clift put aside her autobiographi...
Finding their Freud
Drawing together twenty-five writers, largely nove...
In the fray
Should we be teaching contemporary literature in s...
Aisles, shelves and stalls
Evan Friss’s The Bookshop is an admirable explorat...