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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 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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Posted on August 2, 2017

“the overbearing mother, the emotional repression, the teasing sort-of girlfriend, the constant guilt and fear ” – draft review of The Cure, Rachel Genn, TLS, 2011

The TLS ultimately used a much edited version of this review of a book I evidently didn’t like. Perhaps I was uncomfortable with the line “having sex with Séamus in…

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Posted on July 22, 2017

“an expert on Brecht, the law of contract, the price of light bulbs and how to stack loo rolls”

The full text of Henry Hitchings‘ review of Nicholas Hytner‘s memoir in the current TLS isn’t available online, but there is just enough to include this gem: “The artistic director of a…

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