Reviewed in the LRB - Vol. 46 No. 7

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Spinster. Cougar. Carer. Matron. Wife.A rich, provocative and entertaining history of women’s words – of the language we have, and haven’t, had to share our lives.‘A gem of a book’ KATE MOSSE‘A…

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‘Fascinating, magisterially researched, and brilliantly written.’ Steve Silberman, author of NeurotribesThirty-two days underground. No heat. No sunlight.4 June 1938. Nathaniel Kleitman and his research student make their…

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Translated from Icelandic by Philip Roughton“An enthralling, heartening study of a man of unflagging interest in life” Independent“A thoroughly researched biography” New York Review of Books“Provides…

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What if our understanding of capitalism and climate is back to front? What if the problem is not that transitioning to renewables is too expensive, but that saving the planet is not sufficiently profitable?This is Brett Christophers' claim.…

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Juan Gay is on his deathbed. He has decided to spend his last days in The Palace: a monumental, fading institution in the desert, which was an asylum in another lifetime. There, a young man tends to this dying soul – someone who Juan…