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February 24, 2021
Emilie Morrison reviews The Cold Millions, by Jess Walter
January 18, 2021
When Father Harrison Ayre looks back on 2020 and the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the phrase that immediately comes to his mind is ‘dazed and confused.’
February 13, 2020
The Outlaw Ocean by Ian Urbina Bodley Head, 560pp, £18.99/$30 Is the sea interesting? Voyages across the waters have inspired great writers from Homer to Herman Melville, but what about the actual ocean? Can we say anything worthwhile about it? The great Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov was uncertain, finding the way other authors used it
December 17, 2019
Having mentioned an interview between the late Sir Jonathan Miller and Norman Lebrecht in a recent blog on Advent, I am now thinking of another cultural giant who has recently died: Clive James. A friend has drawn my attention to an interview first broadcast in 2001 between James and the novelist Piers Paul Read in
June 26, 2018
Peter Kreeft's 'Forty Reasons' is a commendably concise apologetic
April 06, 2018
Jesus transcended ritualistic legalism - but not the Ten Commandments
March 29, 2018
Ross Douthat's book examines the deepest divisions in the Catholic Church
November 21, 2017
Judith Flanders presents some fascinating cultural insights, but is too keen to play down the spirituality of the season
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