'He is persuaded by the idea that coffee, the most widely used psychoactive substance in the world, changed 18th-century European minds, catalysing a new material rationalism.'

@ajlees on Michael Pollan's new book, 'This is Your Mind on Plants'.

https://literaryreview.co.uk/never-mind-the-neurobollocks

'A publicist interviewed by Fairrie praises Collins and her heroines ... because these were "women who behaved like men". Is that supposed to be good, given how men behaved towards Collins?'

Peter Conrad reviews a new documentary about Jackie Collins.

https://literaryreview.co.uk/easy-writer

'Walk down your supermarket pet food aisle and you’ll be hard pressed to find a single brand that claims to be made with high-welfare meat. More expensive pet food should not be about spoiling our cats but about sparing the farmed beasts we feed them.'

https://literaryreview.co.uk/meattoo