In the London Review of Books
Books reviewed in the current issue of the LRB - volume 35 number 10, 23 May 2013.
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The Carbon Crunch: How We’re Getting Climate Change Wrong – and How to Fix it
Thomas Jones writes:
On a damp, chill, blustery August afternoon in Whitby a few years ago I overheard a disgruntled holidaymaker de... See details
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Earthmasters: The Dawn of the Age of Climate Engineering
Thomas Jones writes:
On a damp, chill, blustery August afternoon in Whitby a few years ago I overheard a disgruntled holidaymaker de... See details
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The City and the Coming Climate: Climate Change in the Places We Live
Thomas Jones writes:
On a damp, chill, blustery August afternoon in Whitby a few years ago I overheard a disgruntled holidaymaker de... See details
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Mr Foote’s Other Leg: Comedy, Tragedy and Murder in Georgian London
Charles Nicholl writes:
The career of the Georgian comedian Samuel Foote is a chequered story of twists and scrapes, setbacks and re... See details
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James Anthony Froude: An Intellectual Biography of a Victorian Prophet
John Pemble writes:
The scene had been too trying even for the practised headsman of the Tower. His arm wandered. The bl... See details
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Permanent Present Tense: The Man with No Memory, and What He Taught the World
Mike Jay writes:
Memory creates our identity, but it also exposes the illusion of a coherent self: a memory is not a thing but an ac... See details
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Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life
Richard J. Evans writes:
Do we need another biography of Marx to go alongside the many we already have? The justification given by J... See details
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The Woman Upstairs
Emily Witt writes:
The narrator of The Woman Upstairs is Nora Eldridge, and from the start she describes herself as somethi... See details
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Calcutta: Two Years in the City
Deborah Baker writes:
In January 1990 I moved from New York to Calcutta to get married. Having never been to India, I came equipped ... See details
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The Book of My Lives
Christopher Tayler writes:
‘My story is boring,’ the narrator says in Aleksandar Hemon’s story ‘The Conductor’, in Love and Obst... See details
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Amsterdam Stories
Benjamin Moser writes:
After publishing a handful of stories around the time of the First World War, Fritz Grönloh, an Amsterdam bus... See details
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Black Market Britain: 1939-1955
Bernard Porter writes:
Britons on the home front in the Second World War bore the sacrifices the war imposed on them without too muc... See details
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The Big Truck That Went by: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster
Pooja Bhatia writes:
In January 2010, Jonathan Katz was working in Haiti for the Associated Press, the only American news organisati... See details
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Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti
Pooja Bhatia writes:
In January 2010, Jonathan Katz was working in Haiti for the Associated Press, the only American news organisati... See details
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