The Vice of Kings
This dark book, partly based on the author’s own family history, is ominously subtitled ‘how socialism, occultism, and the sexual revolution engineered a culture of…… Read More »
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Libraries of the Mind
Some time ago, I reviewed in these pages a book also written by a French professor about how to talk about books that you have…… Read More »
THE XENOTEXT, BOOK 2
In Book 1 of the Xenotext, the author set out his plan to encode a poem into the genome of a deathless bacterium (extremophile), ‘thereby…… Read More »
AUTOCRACY INC.
In November 2021, the year that the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was arrested in Russia after returning from his hospitalization in Germany, Anne Applebaum…… Read More »
A Little Book of Poems
I very much enjoyed these engaging poems offered as ‘unexceptional signs of common humanity’ – some of which have been set to music. Here is…… Read More »
Speed Reading Faster
Written by experienced experts in the field, this book gives proven techniques and shortcuts for speed reading, with corresponding practical exercises. The crux is to…… Read More »
Thinking Through Writing – A Guide for Becoming a Better Writer and Thinker
This highly practical book combines developing skills in reading, writing and critical thinking at a time when these are in steep decline among students. It…… Read More »
The Celts – A Modern History
This is a radical and definitive study of the Celts and the way in which they have been understood through history, especially since the Renaissance…… Read More »
Neanderthals and Atlantis – Rudolph Steiner and the New Prehistory
Andrew Welburn is the author of a series of books that bridge academic and spiritual perspectives, notably through incorporating the work of Rudolf Steiner. This…… Read More »
War is a Racket
General Smedley Butler (1881-1940) published this passionate book in 1934, in the midst of the great depression. The title still says it all, asking the…… Read More »