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Posted on August 16, 2018

Review of “Long Live Latin: A Latin Miscellany” -John M Gray, SAU Blog, 14th July 2005

On Bastille Day 2005 this piece appeared on the Social Affairs Unit blog. The only chance, so far, I have had to deploy Frangere dum metuis, franges crystallina, peccant / Securae nimium solicitaeque…

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Posted on July 25, 2018July 25, 2018

The Go Betweens : Cattle and Cane

Originally posted on The Immortal Jukebox:
What are we made of? Well, you could say we are mainly Oxygen, Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Calcium and Phosphorous. Add some pinches of Potassium,…

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Posted on July 21, 2018July 21, 2018

“The knowledge of a raven’s head” – Celtic language T-Shirts from Mireog, Ring, Waterford

I recently came across Mireog, a company based in Ring, Co Waterford . I first came across their T-shirts  but they have a whole range of products. More info on Mireog:  Mireog…

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Posted on March 14, 2018

Review of “The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, The Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity”, Amir D Aczel, Lancet, 17th February 2001

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…

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Posted on March 14, 2018March 14, 2018

Review of Oliver Sacks, “The River of Consciousness”, TLS 13th March 2018

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…

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Posted on March 2, 2018

“The silent are never at home in our culture again”

Adam DeVille has a fascinating pair of posts (one here, one here) on Maggie Ross‘ Silence: A User’s Guide. Both posts are worth reading in full (and I must now…

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Posted on March 2, 2018March 2, 2018

Review of “Life Ascending”, Nick Lane, Eurotimes July 2009

This fine book on evolution was well reviewed at the time and won the 2010 Royal Society prize for science books. Here is my review from Eurotimes . Or rather…

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Posted on August 9, 2017August 9, 2017

Review of “Wild Abandon”, Joe Dunthorne, TLS, August 19th 2011

This is a brief review of an entertaining second novel by Joe Dunthorne. It didn’t quite have the success of Submarine, which was a pity, since in many ways the…

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