From the March 2006 Issue Was It All Just a Meme? Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: The Evolutionary Origins of Belief By Lewis Wolpert Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon By Daniel C Dennett The Great Transformation: The World in the Time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah By Karen Armstrong LR
From the December 2005 Issue Bernard Green Following a Different Script John Marco Allegro: The Maverick of the Dead Sea Scrolls By Judith Anne Brown LR
From the August 2005 Issue In the Begining Whose Bible Is It? A History of the Scriptures through the Ages By Jaroslav Pelikan LR
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‘The Second World War was won in Oxford. Discuss.’
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Nicholas Rankin: We Shall Fight in the Buttery - Oxford’s War 1939–1945 by Ashley Jackson
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For the first time, all of Sylvia Plath’s surviving prose, a massive body of stories, articles, reviews and letters, has been gathered together in a single volume.
@FionaRSampson sifts it for evidence of how the young Sylvia became Sylvia Plath.
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Fiona Sampson: Changed in a Minute - The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath by Peter K Steinberg (ed)
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The ruling class has lost its sprezzatura.
On porky rolodexes and the persistence of elite reproduction, for the @Lit_Review: