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Making earthly paradise: The art and crafts of William Morris

Why Surrealism Matters: Book review

Life at the sad café: Carson McCullers

Artobiography: Two critics locate themselves in Netherlandish painting

Travelin’ man and woman: Taking to the road and the boxcar

Echoes of Eco in His Library

New lick of paint: Twentieth-century illustrators reimagined Victorian classics

Shelf life: Judging books by their covers

The constraints and ‘small freedoms’ of the sonnet

Like an Uncut Cake: The enduring appeal of the hard-copy encyclopedia

Drunk on the Page

Hiding in plain sight: How Josephine Baker became a spy for the Allies

Audible cheesecake?: How to become a better listener

Sexual Behaviour Then and Now

The Harry Potter Fallacy

Real first world war: A monumental account of the Napoleonic Wars (2020)

The Gambler Wife and other new books about Dostoevsky

What are the limits of logic?: How a groundbreaking logician lost control

John Rawls: Visions of Justice

Special intelligence: The exceptional life of Cora Du Bois (2016)

On the complex, vital role played by interpreters

Wit, Love and the ‘Other World’ in the Letters of James Merrill

Heard instinct: Deafness and the prosthetics for overcoming it

Making something of ourselves: The history of character, and how we shape it

Fifty twists of the tongue: A remarkable version of a remarkable Arabic classic

What is a letter?: Literary correspondence in the age of instant communications

An Old and Fishy Tale

Roger Penrose: Beauty above all

Uncanny Elizabethan autofiction: 2 ways of understanding early modern personhood

High minds, low politics: The lives of four revolutionary thinkers

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