The West and the Rest
DD74 - The West and the Rest He died in 2020, but Roger Scruton still comes across as a contemporary critic. Idiosyncratic? Certainly. Alarmingly [...]
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The End of the Affair
The End of the Affair Some books are disconcertingly good. Why disconcertingly? It might be because, for the reader, they offer the kind of [...]
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Left, Right, and Wrong
Like many people, I find books about science and mathematics, and the existence of logical puzzles fascinating. Among the many writers who managed to [...]
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In Its Purest Form
Lolita: In Its Purest Form In a sense, all I want to say is ‘Read this book, it’s really brilliant’. As if it were [...]
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The Alchemist
DD69 - The Alchemist There is a vast literature devoted to the business of ‘finding yourself’. One way is to overcome some demanding tests, [...]
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Histories of Time
Histories of Time There are two ways we tend to think about time. One has to do with the way we cut up time, [...]
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Sometimes to attempt to write about a book in just four pages is ridiculous, almost an affront to a work that demands a significant [...]
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DD65 – Remembering
The older one becomes, the more we tend to reminisce with friends about past events – both achievements and failures. Memory is tricky, in [...]
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After Pooh
After Pooh And after Pooh, there was Piglet. If Winnie-the-Pooh was to offer an introduction to the world of Western philosophy, then his shy [...]
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Journey to the East
DD60 – The Journey to the East I first came across Hermann Hesse’s short story, The Journey to the East, reading a book by [...]
