Letters to and from Darwin in the immediate aftermath of the publication of ‘On the Origin of Species’.
Writing tagged: ‘reviews’
Book review: ‘Philip Larkin: Collected Poems’ edited by Anthony Thwaite
All of Larkin’s poems in one handy volume.
Book review: ‘Darwin’s Most Wonderful Plants’ by Ken Thompson
Darwin’s botany today.
Film review: Jack Reacher (2012)
Tom Cruise has never won an Oscar. Not once. Not for Eyes Wide Shut. Not for Knight and Day. Not even for Mission: Impossible 2. He has come tantalisingly close a few times. Like when he played opposite Oscar-scooping Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man. And when his first ex-wife, Nicole Kidman, won an Academy Award… Continue reading Film review: Jack Reacher (2012)
Book review: ‘On Writing Well’ by William Zinsser
The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction.
Book review: ‘Human Evolution’ by Bernard Wood
A very short introduction.
Book review: ‘The Jeeves Omnibus, vol. 1’ by P.G. Wodehouse
What-ho!
Book review: ‘The Tree House’ by Kathleen Jamie
Poetry grounded squarely in the real world.
Book review: ‘A Field Guide to Getting Lost’ by Rebecca Solnit
Getting lost as a way to finding yourself.
Book review: ‘The Faraway Nearby’ by Rebecca Solnit
A curiously compelling mix of memoir and anti-memoir.