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David Womersley
Lockdown reading
Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year resonates with our new way of life
David Womersley
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Emulation and evisceration
Noel Malcolm tells the story of western intellectual fascination with the Ottoman empire from the fall of Constantinople in 1453
David Womersley
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Rabelais and the likely lads
A posthumous collection of poems by Geoffrey Hill embodies a controversial but impassioned idea of what poetry is and does
David Womersley
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Irreverent reboot of well woke Will
Is Shakespeare 'accessible'? The truth is that Shakespeare’s plays combine an unusual accessibility of human situation with an unusual difficulty of language
David Womersley
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Sam-I-Am’s Final Act
The last volume of his collected letters reveals Samuel Beckett at his most Beckettian
David Womersley
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Was There An Irish Enlightenment?
What is "enlightenment", and did one happen in 18th-century Ireland?
David Womersley
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The Prime And Vigour Of His Life
The final volume of Burke's writings proves we are living in a golden age of Burke scholarship
David Womersley
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The Fine Art Of Editing Reveals The Real Eliot
The new edition of Eliot's elusive poems surprises, delights and informs
David Womersley
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Hume’s ‘Treatise’ And The Problem Of Early Success
A new biography sheds light on the afterlife of Hume's writings
David Womersley
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Philosophy
Scotland
Reflections On Bourke’s Burke
A careful and learned account which will be required reading for future historians of Burke
David Womersley
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Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley
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The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart
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A tripod in the sky
The view from above
Christian House
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