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Matt Thorne
From Brideshead to Hogwarts: a strange architectural tour
novel houses by christina hardyment bodleian library, 240pp, £25/$40 american screenwriters are fond of the term “precinct” to refer to the ...
An anthropologist takes on Richard Dawkins
believers: faith in human nature by martin konner, norton, 336pp, £22/$28.95 as everyone from teilhard de chardin to albert einstein has tau...
Is language proof of God's existence?
don’t believe a word by david shariatmadari widenfeld and nicolson, 336pp, £16.99/$26.95 linguistics is a fascinating area of study, but an ...
The 500-year-old book that overwhelms its owners
the lost gutenberg by margaret davis atlantic, 304pp, £16.99/$27 what has been nicknamed “the commode”, “the whale” and “#45”? those of you ...
We're doomed, so let's have a nice cup of tea
the selfish ape by nicholas p money reaktion books, 152pp, £14.99/$20 nicholas money’s new book, subtitled human nature and our path to exti...
Is history driven by 'troublemakers'?
troublemakers by dieter thoma polity press, 400pp, £30/$45 two recent events have made german philosopher dieter thoma’s wide-ranging book t...
An elusive painting, even after 500 pages
this is not just a painting by bernard lahire, translated by helen morrison, polity, 450pp, £30/$45 helen morrison has undoubtedly done engl...
Experimental novelist Murakami is sounding like a broken record
killing commendatore by haruki murakami, harvill secker, 702pp, £20/$30 isolation is central to the work of japanese novelist haruki murakam...
Confessions of a Scandinavian St Augustine
the end by karl ove knausgaard, harvill secker, 1,153pp, £25/$49.95 the english translation of the end, the final volume of the celebrated n...
Biblical films get the academic treatment
matt thorne finds some insight amid the waffle t&t clark companion to the bible and film edited by richard walsh, bloomsbury/t&t cla...
Should we reboot the internet?
just going back to typewriters isn’t enough, says matt thorne democracy hacked by martin moore, oneworld, 336pp, £16.99 on june 29, 2011, po...
From popes and purgatory to horror films and rap
dante’s divine comedy by ian thomson, head of zeus, 280pp, £18.99 the notion of a literary canon is an unfashionable one. on english courses...
Heroes and villains of the opioid crisis
dopesick by beth macy, apollo, 384pp, £20 in 1895, heroin was readily available at any american drug store or by mail order. babies were fre...
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