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TLS | November 8, 2024 | Book reviews, essays and more.
Nov 8, 2024 · Contemplating his likely end, Vladimir Putin’s gadfly opponent Alexei Navalny joked that his memoir, Patriot (reviewed by Wendy Slater), was bound to be a bestseller – “The book’s author has been murdered by a villainous president; what more could the marketing department ask for?”. By Martin Ivens.
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TLS | November 8, 2024 | Book reviews, essays and more.
Nov 8, 2024 · In this week’s TLS. Contemplating his likely end, Vladimir Putin’s gadfly opponent Alexei Navalny joked that his memoir, Patriot (reviewed by Wendy Slater), was bound to be a bestseller – “The book’s author has been murdered by a villainous president; what more could the marketing department ask for?”. By Martin Ivens.
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Gray Matters by Theodore H. Schwartz | Book review | The TLS
512pp. Oneworld. £25. In Gray Matters Theodore H. Schwartz offers a lively and compelling “biography” of brain surgery. He charts the development of the speciality, interwoven with an account of his training, personal, and professional life. He begins with the “founding father” of neurosurgery, Harvey Cushing (1869–1939), and ends ...
November 5, 2021 | The TLS
In this week’s TLS. Claire Tomalin’s new biography, The Young H. G. Wells, limits itself to “the roller-coaster” narrative of the writer’s earlier years before the First World War. By Martin Ivens.
September 17, 2021 | The TLS
Judgements in stone. The two contrasting styles of Edmonia Lewis, the first African American woman sculptor. By Mary Beard.
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September 3, 2021 | The TLS
Sep 3, 2021 · In this week’s TLS. John Cheever counted himself a member of a “cheerful generation” of prosperous east coast Americans in the Truman and Eisenhower years. In honour of the laureate of leafy white suburbs, swimming pools and barbecues, Time magazine duly dubbed him “Ovid in Ossining”, Ossining being his New York City dormitory home town.
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