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Posted on February 4, 2019

Review of “Oestrogen Matters’ in the current TLS

In the current TLS I have a brief review of Avram Bluming and Carol Tavris’ book on HRT. The full text is available to subscribers; here is the first paragraph:…

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Posted on January 5, 2019January 4, 2019

An amusing correction in the TLS letters page from 12 years ago

While looking for something entirely different, I came across this letter to the TLS by Tim Nau from January 5th 2007: Sir, -In a paragraph about saints of the Dark Ages…

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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 11, 2018November 11, 2018

An Italian poem of World War I – “Last Rite”, Clemente Rebora

The current TLS has a piece by NS Thompson on Italian poets of the First World War, along with translations by Thompson of some of their works. Futurism, which glorified…

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Posted on July 14, 2018

“Cocks exist for the hen, but hens exist for the cock” – is there such thing as self – parody? with Bernard Richards, Max Beerbohm, Algernon Swinburne, Henry Reed – and Tennyson, Eliot and Kipling

This letter from Bernard Richards in the 29th June TLS caught my eye: Sir, – Francis Hope spoke in his reprinted review of Nabokov’s Ada (From the Archives, June 22) of authors writing…

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Posted on April 7, 2018April 7, 2018

The past and future of handwriting- David Rundle in the TLS

In the current TLS there is an excellent review by David Rundle of two recent books on handwriting. Anyone who knows me, or more specifically had had to read my…

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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 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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