The world is not enough

Kurt Gödel and the Mechanization of Mathematics

Finally getting somewhere: Memories of Oliver Sacks’s shy, eccentric brilliance

Risk the kitsch: The life of a concert pianist

Shrink thinking: are countries really like people?

How to make a hero: Opium and etymology

Pride and Paragon: Virginia Woolf on George Eliot (1919)

Re-reading the novels of John le Carré

Melting with Tenderness: Vladimir Nabokov on Apostrophes

Ode to skimming: On reading and our attention spans

Scientific wasteland: recent problems with psychiatry

Michel Foucault: Power and Struggle

When Dickens Met Dostoevsky (2013)

The history of celebrity: from Bernhardt to the Kardashians

Wagner: totalizing master of endless melodies

The slow clean: the role of baths in twentieth-century literature

Fra Angelico and the revolution in painting

Salvator Mundi and the unreality of the art market

Glittering loneliness – Philip Larkin and his parents

Walter Benjamin: Fragments, Salvage and Detours

Taking History Personally

Umberto Eco: Texts, sign systems and the risks of over-interpretation

A rich and joyous book about pigeons

Claude Lévi-Strauss: Science, myths and the mystical

Isn't it Byronic? Don Juan at 200

Hands That Speak

Ends of the Urth

Arthur Miller’s Shame

Mozart: Rational Revolutionary

No posthumous privacy: the middle years of T. S. Eliot

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