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Minna Salami Sensuous Knowledge
June 18, 2020

Sensuous Knowledge: A black feminist approach for everyone by Minna Salami

Review by Peter Reason Minna Salami is a Nigerian and Finnish social critic, founder of the MsAfropolitan blog, who draws on Africa-centric and feminist…

April 23, 2020

‘Not’ the Wellcome Prize Blog Tour 2020 #2 – Galileo’s Error by Philip Goff

The Wellcome Book Prize is on hiatus this year – we really hope it’ll return in 2021 as this unique prize, which celebrates literature…

November 7, 2019

Galileo’s Error: A New Science of Consciousness by Philip Goff

Review by Peter Reason This is a book about the philosophical perspective of panpsychism, written by a leading academic advocate. Panpsychism is an awkward…

I Am Dynamite! A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche
February 14, 2019

I Am Dynamite! A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche by Sue Prideaux

Review by Max Dunbar Alpha males in print tend to be omega males in real life. Friedrich Nietzsche was not rich during his lifetime….

February 12, 2019

Learning to Die: Wisdom in the Age of Climate Crisis by Robert Bringhurst and Jan Zwicky

Review by Peter Reason I am not sure how I came across this book; I think I followed a link on Twitter. It appealed…

May 8, 2018

Souvenir (Object Lessons) by Rolf Potts

Review by Liz Dexter This book is part of the Object Lessons series, which exists to highlight the hidden lives of ordinary things. This…

The Santiago Pilgrimage by Jean-Christophe Rufin
June 13, 2017

The Santiago Pilgrimage by Jean-Christophe Rufin

Translated by Martina Devis & Malcolm Imrie Reviewed by Terence Jagger Monsieur Rufin is an impressive man, having founded Médecins sans Frontières, been an…

October 13, 2016

Stranger than we can Imagine by John Higgs

Review by Peter Hobson Subtitled “Making Sense of the Twentieth Century”, Higgs’ book takes fifteen of what he (and I think many people) consider…

July 14, 2015

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty

Reviewed by Eleanor Franzén Caitlin Doughty was a twenty-three-year-old with a degree in medieval history when she decided to become a mortician. The decision…

July 31, 2014

Travels with Epicurus by Daniel Klein

Reviewed by Victoria Best Cultural theorist Giorgio Agamben has some very interesting things to say on the topic of old age – the subject…

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