If you want to know something about the idiocy and hilarity of war, when to stage a Guards regimental photograph in the bandit country of South Armagh (5.30 in the morning), why the Americans are losing their classically asymmetrical war in Iraq, how John Simpson ‘liberated’ Kabul and why the stiff upper lip may be […]
The bicentenary of Trafalgar has allowed authors, documentary-makers and journalists to dive back headlong into the colourful world of George III’s navy: rum, sodomy and the lash all right, but also the excitement of the pursuit of the French fleet to the point of its effective destruction at the battle itself, off Spain, on 21 […]
Is there no end to Scott? People have been banging on about him for ages. Was he a great man? Was he a stupid man? Imperial martyr or unimaginative martinet? Victim of freak weather conditions or agent of his own downfall? Back and forth the arguments have gone, hagiographers and revisionists taking their turn at […]
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My piece in the latest @Lit_Review on The Edges of the World by Charles Foster. TLDR fascinating on a micro level, frustrating on a macro level:
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Guy Stagg: Fringe Benefits - The Edges of the World: At the Margins of Life, Lands and History by Charles Foster
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My review of Sonia Faleiro's powerful new book in this month's @Lit_Review.
https://literaryreview.co.uk/where-rituals-come-home-to-roost
for @Lit_Review, I wrote about Freezing Point by Anders Bodelsen, a speculative fiction banger about the cultural consequences of biohacking—Huel dinners, sunny days, negligible culture—that resembles a certain low-tax city for the Turkey teethed
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Ray Philp: Forever Young - Freezing Point by Anders Bodelsen (Translated from Danish by Joan Tate)
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