Richard Ovenden, head of Oxford’s Bodleian Library, makes the case for libraries and the preservation of knowledge. Libraries, those repositories of human...
Read MoreThis biography is a wonderfully eccentric wander through a rediscovered author’s life. Few writers generate a cult following that spans decades, and those who do...
Read MoreComplex layers of discussion inform this memoir on the fragility of life. In 2011, the actions of two strangers saved Robert Dessaix from ‘being deported from the...
Read MoreI used to entertain myself and (less so, I suspect) my friends by posing the question, ‘What three events in history would you wish to have been a witness to?’ I had a...
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