Last December, Donald Trump reacted furiously when the climate activist Greta Thunberg was named Time magazine’s Person of the Year. He was still griping about it in January, when he complained to reporters at a press
Across four hundred pages of wit, cynicism and dark humour, two lines in Rachel Maddow’s second book, Blowout, stand out. They just so happen to be on the same page. As Maddow, an Emmy Award-winning MSNBC host, outlines the curse that has seen corruption and poor governance blight developing countries endowed with resource wealth, she […]
The vast majority of the world’s hungry are farmers. In a world of such ironies, many turn to faith or fate to explain affliction and its consequences. The mothers Martín Caparrós interviews don’t know why their children are ill, but they don’t believe it’s because they are not feeding them. They
Relatively few economists use Balzac and Austen as primary sources. Thomas Piketty is an exception. In his discussion of income and wealth inequality in 19th-century France, he points to the story of Père Goriot as an example of wealth accumulation and decumulation. Having made a small fortune in the pasta trade, Goriot lost
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The latest volume of T S Eliot’s letters, covering 1942–44, reveals a constant stream of correspondence. By contrast, his poetic output was negligible.
Robert Crawford ponders if Eliot the poet was beginning to be left behind.
Robert Crawford - Advice to Poets
Robert Crawford: Advice to Poets - The Letters of T S Eliot, Volume 10: 1942–1944 by Valerie Eliot & John Haffenden (edd)
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"[Boin] has succeeded in embedding Clodia in a much less hostile environment than the one in which she found herself in Ciceronian Rome. She emerges as intelligent, lively, decisive and strong-willed.”
Daisy Dunn - O, Lesbia!
Daisy Dunn: O, Lesbia! - Clodia of Rome: Champion of the Republic by Douglas Boin
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‘A fascinating mixture of travelogue, micro-history and personal reflection.’
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John Foot - Grave Matters
John Foot: Grave Matters - Travels Through the Spanish Civil War by Nick Lloyd; El Generalísimo: Franco – Power...
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