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A Short History of Power
For Simon Heffer, the pursuit of power has been since the birth of civilization the driving force of history, and remains so today. For all that we... See details
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The Foreigner
Two essays by Richard Sennett explore what it means to be a foreigner. In the first, a longer version of a piece that appears in Sennett’s Flesh... See details
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The Mourning Diary: Introduced by Michael Wood
The day after the death of his mother in 1977 Roland Barthes began to keep a diary of his grief, recording its progress in epigrammatic remarks on ... See details
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The Portable Paradise: Baedeker, Murray and the Victorian Guidebook
Jonathan Keates’s provides an entertaining guide to the guidebooks of the golden age of travel – the great Murrays and Baedekers of the 19th and ea... See details
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Thoughts of Sorts: Introduced by Margaret Drabble
This selection of Perec’s essays and occasional pieces was made after their author’s death, mainly by his friend and fellow Oulipien Marcel Bénabou... See details
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Cataract
Artist and writer John Berger reflects on sight – its loss and its recovery – following surgery to remove cataracts from both his eyes: ‘If I try t... See details
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The Road to Apocalypse: The Extraordinary Journey of Lewis Way
In 1804 a struggling young barrister called Lewis Way inherited a large fortune from his friend John Way (despite the coincidence of their surnames... See details
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Table Talk & Recollections: Introduced by Christopher Ricks
Samuel Rogers was a prolific poet, but by no means a good one, and his fame has long been eclipsed by his contemporaries Wordsworth, Coleridge and ... See details
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William Morris in Iceland: Questions of Travel
Lavinia Greenlaw’s selections from the journal that William Morris kept during his visit to Iceland in the summer of 1871 are punctuated by her own... See details
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Wandering Jew. The Search for Joseph Roth
Dennis Marks became fascinated by the enigmatic figure of Joseph Roth while making a series of programmes for Radio 3 about the Habsburg Empire. In... See details
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