Michelle Dean’s work Sharp: The women who made an art of having an opinion presents a clique of female critics, each linked in some inextricable way. Its lens of feminism, unlike its author’s approach to the influential writers of the genre, feels unnecessary and contrived.
[REVIEW] A Reading Diary: A Year of Favourite Books, by Alberto Manguel (Canongate)
It’s very rare that I will read the experiences of another author and feel as though we are of the same soul. That happened with this title, unexpectedly.
[Book Review] The Hall of Uselessness: Collected Essays, by Simon Leys
I was extremely surprised – and not a little bit joyful – to find an essayist of this calibre living in my country, and available in a major bookstore.
Philosophical transactions: science, physics and the dearth of philosophical debate
The putting into action of the Large Hadron Collider last week caused an enormous wave of interesting writing in the regular media. It also caused your regular joe to pause for a moment and really seriously consider the implications of…