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Reviews: Culture
Book review: ‘The Essays: a selection’ by Michel de Montaigne
Classic personal essays from the man who established the genre.
Book review: ‘The View in Winter’ by Ronald Blythe
Reflections on old age.
Book review: ‘The Diary of Virginia Woolf, volume 5’
A final volume of diaries, covering a momentous time in British and European history.
Book review: ‘Stoicism: a very short introduction’ by Brad Inwood
A useful guide to an ancient philosophy.
Book review: ‘London Review of Books: an incomplete history’
A profusely illustrated coffee-table tome.
Book review: ‘Why We Read’ by Josephine Greywoode (ed.)
Seventy writers on factual writing.
Book review: ‘Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World’ by Barry Lopez
A thoughtfully observed posthumous collection of essays.
Book review: ‘The Fran Lebowitz Reader’
Humorous journalism.
Book review: ‘W. G. Sebald in Context’ by Uwe Schütte (ed.)
A fascinating collection of academic essays about Sebald’s life, work and influences