The Empty Raincoat
The Empty Raincoat The Age of Unreason first appeared in bookshops in 1989. The front cover illustration was of a frog with a placard [...]
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05, 2023
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03, 2023
Here and There – France
Here and There – France I wonder how often a blogger asks, “how much do I want to disclose?” Everything you write can offer [...]
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02, 2023
Here and There – Norway
Here and There – Norway Norway holds a special place in my heart, for reasons that go back to my school days. Recollections from [...]
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02, 2023
Bridge to Terabithia
Bridge to Terabithia Some books remain stuck in your memory, while others gently fade away. There is a moment at the beginning of Wind [...]
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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
Here and There – Bavaria
Here and There – Bavaria Do you believe that on some occasions we have a presentiment, a sense we have seen or experienced something [...]
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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
Here and There – China – Shanghai
Here and There – China – Shanghai I first went to Shanghai for work in 1998. I had been to China several times before, [...]
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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 [...]
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08, 2022
Here and There – Wales
Here and There – Wales My view of Wales is a tangle of images, of instant potato, graptolites, stunning scenery, rain and young women. [...]