Transit of Venus
DD – Transit of Venus I began to be an avid reader of 20th Century women novelists when I began life as an undergraduate, [...]
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Treasure Island
Treasure Island I loved adventure stories when I was young, everything from Enid Blyton’s Secret Seven series to J M Ballantyne’s Coral Island, and [...]
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01, 2023
Theodore Zeldin
Theodore Zeldin Why am I attracted to people who deliberately place themselves out of the mainstream? As an undergraduate studying social anthropology, I had [...]
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12, 2022
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf In writing about Virginia Woolf, I’m going to take the easy way out. I will avoid talking about her novels. It’s a [...]
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11, 2022
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut When I first read Slaughterhouse-Five, way back in the 1970s, I knew almost nothing about postmodernist novels and their importance as a [...]
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11, 2022
John Updike
John Updike It is always important to know the enemy, and on this occasion the enemy is me. Let’s be clear, I am an [...]
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10, 2022
Charles Taylor
Charles Taylor Tidying up some items in a desk drawer, I found a tin with several old coins inside. I must have put them [...]
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10, 2022
Peter Singer
Peter Singer Just about every day an expert is happily giving the rest of us advice on what we need to do. The proposal [...]
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10, 2022
Here and There – Eire
Here and There – Éire To someone brought up in England, the west coast of Ireland, Éire, always seemed exotic and different. This was [...]
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09, 2022
Theodore Roszak
Theodore Roszak The intellectual world in the late 1960s and early 1970s was vibrantly polemic. While their students were taking to the streets in [...]