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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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…
“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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
“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…
Séamus Sweeney 