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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...
Books of the Year 2024
Visit the Times Bookshop to purchase the books bel...
Crossword 1522
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Remarkable affinities
That two of the most original writers of the twent...
Swimming lessons
In 2015 the German author Katja Oskamp gave up wri...
Ungraspable realities
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuri...
Beneath the sea
A few miles along the coast from Aberystwyth, wher...
Heralding the unnamed
Joshua Bennett’s Owed is dedicated to the “unheral...
Writing chops
Jay Rayner has been restaurant critic at the Obser...