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Posted on December 20, 2018

“No poor people please, I write for the New Yorker” – Daniel Kalder on Lawrence Wright in the TLS

Daniel Kalder  had a review in the TLS a while back of Lawrence Wright’s God Save Texas. The full text is on Kalder’s own website. Entertainingly, while the review itself…

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Posted on November 5, 2018November 5, 2018

Trying to do too much – lessons from the Life Study, the Trappists and David Mamet

Here is a post on my other blog “A Medical Education” inspired by a passage in Helen Pearson’s “The Life Project”, which I reviewed in the TLS. An understandable tendency to…

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Posted on September 13, 2017

“Hell is where the damned stay, immobilized by their choices” – Rowan Williams on The Divine Comedy, TLS, September 12th 2017

From this review There is still a tendency among not very attentive readers – not to mention people who have read almost nothing of the work but have picked up…

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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 20, 2017July 20, 2017

Piece on cardiac surgery in Times Literary Supplement

Originally posted on A Medical Education:
In the current TLS I have a review of two books on cardiac surgery. One is Stephen Westaby’s  memoir of his career, the other is Thomas…

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Posted on April 10, 2016April 10, 2016

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…

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