Stephen Hawking and Richard Dawkins
My Brief History, by Stephen Hawking, Bantam Press, RRP£12.99/$22, 144 pages An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist, by Richard Dawkins, Bantam Press, RRP£20/Ecco, RRP$27.99, 328 pages The simultaneous publication of memoirs by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and cosmologist Stephen Hawking is a wonderful opportunity to compare and contrast Britain’s most famous scientists. It is
John le Carré Has Not Mellowed With Age (Published 2013)
John le Carré, the 20th century's pre-eminent spy writer.Credit...Nadav Kander for The New York Times On a recent Saturday morning in February, two dozen or so scent hounds streamed through the streets of St. Buryan, a small village in Cornwall, England. Behind them drifted a loose formation of men and women perched atop well-groomed horses and wearing boots, breeches and hunting coats. As the fox
What the Tide Brought In (Published 2013)
Nao was easy. The voice of the quirky, troubled 16-year-old Japanese schoolgirl whose words begin “A Tale for the Time Being,” Ruth Ozeki’s new novel, came to the author as she was immersed in a Buddhist teaching. But it took five frustrating years for Ms. Ozeki to round out the story. For one thing, she was caught in “a bit of a grief fog” after her mother’s death from cancer, she said. And she h
War by Other Means (Published 2013)
Long March: Classic guerrilla warfare tactics helped bring Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communists to power.Credit...S.M./SZ Photo — The Image Works (1934-35) For the counterinsurgency experts of a century ago, the extension of European empire into the Middle East offered exciting possibilities. The Italians bombed Libyans on the eve of World War I, but that was just the beginning. From 1919 onward,
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Tales of conflict
The Deliberations of War (Published 2014)
J.F.K., Tragedy, Myth
LARB Honors 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature Winner Alice Munro | Los Angeles Review of Books
Now it can be told
Conversations with John le Carré
The Real Men of England | Fintan O’Toole
The Road to West Egg
Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the 20th Century – review
http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2013/02/existential-jazz-%E2%80%93-review
How We Fight (Published 2013)
Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death by Otto Dov Kulka – review
Richard G. Stern, Writers’ Writer, Dies at 84 (Published 2013)
George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year (Published 2013)
‘We Shall Go On to the End’ (Published 2012)
You Are All Soft! Embrace Chaos! (Published 2012)