Honora Bartlett, Richard Joyner, George McKay, Jane O’Grady and Sharon Wheeler...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
A look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
Jane O’Grady is frustrated by a minutely calibrated study of centuries of reflections on eroticism
Jane O’Grady grapples with an ambitious attempt to rethink the development of philosophy from the ancient Greeks until today
Jane O’Grady wishes this study of ideological inconsistencies had gone a bit deeper
Jane O’Grady is enthralled by a meticulous meditation on possible worlds and paths not taken
Jane O’Grady is intrigued by an analysis of the psychological depths plumbed by the fiction of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy
Today’s conspiracists see all social phenomena as resulting from dark intrigues – but why, Jane O’Grady wants to know
Book of the week: Jane O’Grady is impressed but not wholly convinced by an attempt to solve one of the most celebrated philosophical challenges
Human rights are rooted in the ancient concept of a universal natural law, observes Jane O’Grady
Book of the week: Jane O’Grady assesses a bold analysis of how ‘modernity’ failed to live up to the ideals of the Enlightenment
This discussion of in what sense an artist owns their artwork is at its most interesting when discussing the paradoxes of ‘appropriation art’, says Jane O’Grady
From football to religious intolerance and from witchcraft to Hollywood excess: our reviewers select a book they have recently read and would warmly recommend to others and another they look forward...
An attack on the foundation of modern Western society has an absolutist ring to Jane O’Grady
Polyamory could shed light on whether love is mainly biological or social, says Jane O’Grady