'The river’s desecration mirrors Colombia’s long history of violence: "for years we treated it like a sewer," says Ahmed, a survivor of a particularly brutal paramilitary massacre, "just like we treated each other".'

Patrick Wilcken on the Magdalena.

https://literaryreview.co.uk/troubled-waters-3

It's 'all lively and entertaining but rather too black and white. Her account of British politics and the success of the Brexit campaign verges on the cartoonish.'

@David_Goodhart on Anne Applebaum's 'Twilight on Democracy'.

https://literaryreview.co.uk/a-tale-of-two-parties

'Robert Silvers, editor of the New York Review of Books, once asked Isaiah Berlin who his ideal dinner guest would be. Without hesitation Berlin exclaimed, ‘William James!’'

https://literaryreview.co.uk/the-pragmatists-progress