FOR A WOMAN who made her name back in 1970 by calling for the liberation of women from their domestic shackles, The Boy seems the perfect closure point. Germaine Greer turns out to have lost none of the zest she had as a wild-haired young woman, one who, as she remembers here, had the interesting […]
Nineteenth-century Britain, claims Graham Robb, was more at ease with homosexuality than we like to believe. What better example than a quote from Jane Austen? In Mansfield Park (1814), Mary Crawford says, ‘my home at my uncle’s brought me acquainted with a circle of admirals. Of Rears, and Vices, I saw enough. Now, do not […]
As this is a book about a book, in order to get through this one, you need to have waded through the first one: Jane Juska’s A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance. In this, the author recounted what happened after she’d placed an advertisement in the New York Review of Books […]
‘Was will das Weib?’ asked Sigmund Freud, genuinely perplexed. This collection of women’s love poetry and letters gives a clear answer to ‘What does woman want?’ For more than a millennium, ‘she’, if the singular is permissible, wanted only one thing: a passionate lover who would remain faithful. The woeful gulf between the genders of […]
Britten’s Children brings to mind the case of Michael Jackson, who, in June last year, was acquitted of molesting two small boys. The pop star protested his innocence by claiming, through his lawyers, that he loved and understood children far better than he could ever love or understand grown-ups. This he attributed to the cruel […]
In 1945, Seretse Khama, the heir to a chieftainship in Bechuanaland (now Botswana), came to Britain to study at Balliol. Whilst in England he fell in love and married Ruth Williams, a white woman. A gigantic, almost global weight of disapproval and hatred fell upon the young couple. They were exiled in Britain for six […]
John Campbell’s first book, published nearly thirty years ago, was a study of Lloyd George, entitled The Goat in the Wilderness. Now, having written important biographies of Margaret Thatcher and Edward Heath, Campbell has returned to Lloyd George. Once seen as a political giant, his stock has fallen since Campbell first wrote, and Churchill now […]
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Knowledge of Sufism increased markedly with the publication in 1964 of The Sufis, by Idries Shah. Nowadays his writings, much like his father’s, are dismissed for their Orientalism and inaccuracy.
@fitzmorrissey investigates who the Shahs really were.
Fitzroy Morrissey - Sufism Goes West
Fitzroy Morrissey: Sufism Goes West - Empire’s Son, Empire’s Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah by Nile Green
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Rats have plagued cities for centuries. But in Baltimore, researchers alighted on one surprising solution to the problem of rat infestation: more rats.
@WillWiles looks at what lessons can be learned from rat ecosystems – for both rats and humans.
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Will Wiles: Puss Gets the Boot - Rat City: Overcrowding and Urban Derangement in the Rodent Universes of John B ...
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Twisters features destructive tempests and blockbuster action sequences.
@JonathanRomney asks what the real danger is in Lee Isaac Chung's disaster movie.
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