Review of “The Mystery of Being Human” by Raymond Tallis, TLS, 15/02/17
Behind a paywall online, I have a review of Raymond Tallis’ The Mystery of Being Human : God,Freedom and the NHS, in the current TLS. Here’s the bit that you…
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“streets ahead etc.” – Flashman on the March, 2005, SAU blog
I have just begun reading George Macdonald Fraser’s “Quartered Safe Out Here” – an author I have not read in some time but enjoyed greatly a decade ago and am…
To Solve Everything, Click Here – Evgeny Morozov
I first came across Evgeny Morozov via the computer history mailing list SIGCIS. In essence, Morozov had written a New Yorker piece which drew heavily on the work of the…
Four score and more: Review of “Mortal Coil” by David Boyd Haycock
In contast to David Adam, this is a book whose place in my mental library has diminished rather than increased in the years since – to the extent I had forgot…
No off-switch – review of “The Man Who Couldn’t Stop” by David Adam. TLS 16 July 2014
Although this is explicitly not a self-help book, perhaps the highest praise I can give is that I regularly recommend this in clinical practice and have had very positive feedback…
The Lonely Planet Guide to Experimental Travel. SAU Blog Sept 2005
I have always been irritated by the use of “tourist” and “touristy” as terms of abuse. Better the honest-to-goodness tourist than the self-righteous (and probably utterly deluded about “authenticity”) traveler,…
“The Invention of Morel” Adolfo Bioy Cesares, Reviewed Nthposition 2003 / SF Site 2011
This review was originally published here at Nthposition.com and some years later, with Val Stevenson of Nthposition’s permission of course, a slightly reworked version was published on SF Site Even pieces I have…
Review of “Reading Pictures” by Alberto Manguel, nthposition 2003
Original link here Its almost become a cliché to cite Frank Zappa’s (alleged) quote that “writing about music is like dancing about architecture” when decrying the tendency of music…
Séamus Sweeney 