Essays
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How to be Idle
Idler editor Tom Hodgkinson takes the reader on an engaging meander through the literature of laziness, from the Taoist classics to the cont... See details
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James Thurber: Writings and Drawings
At nearly 1000 pages this handsome volume does full justice to the many manners of Thurber’s genius. Included here are his classic childhood remini... See details
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On Writing
A.L. Kennedy’s latest book On Writing (Jonathan Cape) collects together her Guardian blog posts on the authorial craft and the script... See details
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School Blues
Before becoming a novelist, Daniel Pennac was a teacher, and by all accounts an inspiring one. And before that he was a dunce: in French ‘un cancre... See details
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Sexually, I'm More of a Switzerland: Personal Ads from the London Review of Books
Helpfully arranged into thematic chapters, including 'You know who you are', 'The usual hyperbole and a whiff of playful narcissism', and 'A time c... See details
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Shapely Ankle Preferr'd: A History of the Lonely Hearts Advertisement
‘Lonely Hearts ads of every era have demonstrated distinct stylistic conventions, with the result that many end up sharing a common language and st... See details
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Teach Us to Sit Still: A Sceptic's Search for Health and Healing
Emily Gould writes:
At some point in his mid-forties, the novelist Tim Parks developed a terrible pain, near-constant and located in em...
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