Reviewed in the LRB - Vol. 47 No. 8

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These expertly arranged diaries offer a window into the life and work of one of Australia's greatest living writers'I revere Helen Garner's writing, and it's in her diaries that she's at her acute, rigorous, pitch-perfect best'Nigella…

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What does liberty entail? How have concepts of liberty changed over time? And what are the global consequences? This book surveys the history of rival views of liberty from antiquity to modern times.Quentin Skinner traces the understanding…

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The first part of a major new anthology which uncovers the rich reality of life for queer men in LondonIn the 1940s, it was believed that homosexuality had been becoming more widespread in the aftermath of war. A moral panic ensued, centred…

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'Quite simply, this book is a work of genius' Matthew Parris, SpectatorThe second in a major two-part anthology uncovering the rich reality of life for queer men in London, from the end of the Second World War to decriminalization in…

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A fascinating biography of the drugmaker Albert Barnes, whose pioneering collection of modern art was meant to transform America's soulFrom prominent critic and biographer Blake Gopnik comes a compelling new portrait of America’s…

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The controversial case for why building more housing will not solve the housing problemAgainst Landlords overturns the stale assumptions and YIMBY delusions as to why housing in the UK is so poor, and why rent is so high. Bano lays the…

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Toby Withers, a young man with epilepsy, leaves New Zealand after the death of his mother. While on board a ship to England, he meets Zoe, a middle-aged woman looking for a life of meaning and Pat, an Irishman who claims to have many…

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In 1979, Margaret Thatcher’s new government was faced with rampant double-digit inflation, rising unemployment and flatlining economic growth. In response, Thatcher pursued an economic policy which rejected the old orthodoxies and was…

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A brilliant recreation of the golden age of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia – its landscapes, peoples, conflicts, power structures and political geography.The eighth century has long been a neglected backwater in English history: a…

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The inside story, told by excavators of the extraordinary discovery of the world’s oldest papyri, revealing how Egyptian King Khufu’s men built the Great Pyramid at Giza.Pierre Tallet’s discovery of the Red Sea…

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An insightful history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain told through a single sense: touch. When, where, and who gets to touch and be touched, and who decides? What do we learn through touch? How does touch bring us closer…

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Translated by Martin AitkenA year has passed since the premature death of the narrator's husband. She falls in love again. M is seventeen years younger than her, but the connection between them is intense. Then, as his vulnerability…