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For Good Friday, I am posting reflections by Robert Hugh Benson, the son of an (Anglican) Archbishop of Canterbury who became a Catholic priest and prolific writer before his early…
Originally posted on Biblioklept:
When you can state the theme of a story, when you can separate it from the story itself, then you can be sure the story is…
From The New Yorker, drawn from Orange’s forthcoming novel There There Before you were born, you were a head and a tail in a milky pool—a swimmer. You were a…
From “A Cabinet of Philosophical Curiosities”, Roy Sorensen: When I joined the philosophy department at Washington University in St Louis, I was pleased to see a room with the plaque:…
I actually quite enjoy Gladwell’s articles – a bit solutionist at times but he can tell a story well. Like many other books by New Yorker writers whose New Yorker…
Following on from a review of a book on Nabokov on butterflies, my second piece in a proper non-student publication was this review of Amir D Aczel’s book on George…
Originally posted on A Medical Education:
I have a review in the current TLS of Oliver Sacks’ essay collection, “The River of Consciousness” . The full article is subscriber only…
Séamus Sweeney 