From the July 2020 Issue The Pragmatist’s Progress Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life By John Kaag
From the December 2018 Issue Quite the Père Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce By Colm Tóibín
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From the June 1998 Issue Secrets of the Oxford English Dictionary The Surgeon of Crowthorne By Simon Winchester
From the October 1997 Issue He Discovered the True Philosopher’s Stone Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer By Michael White LR
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From the March 2016 Issue Sympathy for the Bedevilled The Astronomer and the Witch: Johannes Kepler’s Fight for His Mother By Ulinka Rublack LR
From the December 2013 Issue An Inspector Calls Pietr the Latvian By Georges Simenon & translated by David Bellos The Late Monsieur Gallet By Georges Simenon & translated by Anthea Bell The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien By Georges Simenon & translated by Linda Coverdale LR
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In the nine centuries since his death, El Cid has been presented as a prototypical crusader, a paragon of religious toleration and the progenitor of a united Spain.
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