Book Review: Apollo In The Age Of Aquarius
The 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 space flight to and from the Moon has been covered extensively in a raft of books, television programmes and films. A few weeks ago I watched the Apollo 11 film of...
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Stephen Davies on the Wealth Explosion (1): How Europe was and was not...
About two hundred and forty years ago, the human species began to experience a wealth explosion. Poor people, who had been living and dying on the edge of starvation for millennia, began to get less...
View ArticleBook Review: Dangerous Hero by Tom Bower
I recently read the book Dangerous Hero: Corbyn’s Ruthless Plot For Power, by renowned investigative journalist Tom Bower. Bower has also written books on various people such as Richard Branson, Rupert...
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Found on the 8-12 shelf, Space Case by Stuart Gibbs is a science fiction adventure story set on a realistic moon base in which its twelve-year-old protagonist helps to solve a murder mystery. Its...
View ArticleKeeping it long
Volume 9 of of the collected works of Kim Il Sung is now out, and Mick Hartley is having a hard job containing his excitement: Let’s hope the book maintains the powerful tradition in Korean...
View ArticleOf what crimes do the contents of your bookshelves convict you?
My mother was in her early teens in World War II. I once asked her what it was like not to know who would win. Alas, I cannot remember in detail how she answered, but among the things she said was that...
View ArticleA flinching depiction
A Google search for the words “unflinching depiction” got me 57,100 hits. Not so long ago “unflinching” was only just edged out by “edgy” as a term of praise for a work of fiction. Novelists prided...
View ArticleOne of those reviews that makes you buy the book then and there
Mark Honigsbaum reviews Viral by Alina Chan and Matt Ridley in the Guardian: The tragedy is that in their desire to make a plausible case for a lab accident, Chan and Ridley neglect the far more urgent...
View ArticleBook Review: Konstantin Kisin “An immigrant’s love letter to the West” Part I
Konstantin Kisin is a former stand-up comedian who, along with current stand-up comedian Francis Foster hosts the YouTube channel Triggernometry, which is partly a political interview show and partly a...
View ArticleYou can’t joke about that… a review
Comedy is a serious subject: A book review of Kat Timpf’s You can’t joke about that: Why everything is funny, nothing is sacred, and we’re all in this together (2023) By Dr. Douglas Young, U. of...
View ArticleThe Triumph of a Libertarian Comic: a review of Greg Gutfeld’s The King of...
The Triumph of a Libertarian Comic: A Review of Greg Gutfeld’s The King of Late Night by Dr. Douglas Young, U. of North Georgia-Gainesville Political Science Professor Emeritus Political comedian Greg...
View ArticleMarvellously melodic but mercurial: a review of Philip Norman’s George...
Douglas Young reviews George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle How swell to at last have a major biography of that most aloof of all rock stars, George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle, by respected pop...
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