“... south of the border, and this raises two big questions at least. What would have happened had David Cameron not foolishly refused to include a third, ‘devo-max’ option on the ballot? And, whatever the result, will political self-interest and the need to survive finally begin to push the UK’s two so-called main parties in the direction of localism ... ”
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Our Slaves Are Black
Nicholas Guyatt: Theories of Slavery, 4 October 2007
Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
by David Brion Davis.
Oxford, 440 pp., £17.99, May 2006,0 19 514073 7 Show More
by David Brion Davis.
Oxford, 440 pp., £17.99, May 2006,
The Trader, the Owner, the Slave
by James Walvin.
Cape, 297 pp., £17.99, March 2007,978 0 224 06144 5 Show More
by James Walvin.
Cape, 297 pp., £17.99, March 2007,
The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000
by Colin Kidd.
Cambridge, 309 pp., £16.99, September 2006,0 521 79324 6 Show More
by Colin Kidd.
Cambridge, 309 pp., £16.99, September 2006,
The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders’ Worldview
by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene Genovese.
Cambridge, 828 pp., £18.99, December 2005,0 521 85065 7 Show More
by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene Genovese.
Cambridge, 828 pp., £18.99, December 2005,
“... rise of antislavery in Britain and America coincide with an intensification of racial thinking? David Brion Davis’s Inhuman Bondage throws light on the process by which slavery became exclusively black. There were many European precedents for white slavery, not only in the classical period but in the trading networks of the late medieval ... ”
Sacred Text
Richard Gott: Guatemala, 27 May 1999
Rigoberta Menchú and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans
by David Stoll.
Westview, 336 pp., £20, February 1999,0 8133 3574 4 Show More
by David Stoll.
Westview, 336 pp., £20, February 1999,
“... from his car and ransom him in exchange for Camilo Sánchez, one of the guerrilla chiefs held in prison. Mein’s car was stopped, but he refused to go quietly and was shot in the scrimmage. Sánchez, of course, was immediately executed. That particular guerrilla movement soon collapsed, but US military and intelligence assistance to successive ... ”
Now to Stride into the Sunlight
Ian Jack: The Brexiters, 15 June 2017
What Next: How to Get the Best from Brexit
by Daniel Hannan.
Head of Zeus, 298 pp., £9.99, November 2016,978 1 78669 193 4 Show More
by Daniel Hannan.
Head of Zeus, 298 pp., £9.99, November 2016,
The Bad Boys of Brexit: Tales of Mischief, Mayhem & Guerrilla Warfare in the EU Referendum Campaign
by Arron Banks.
Biteback, 354 pp., £9.99, June 2017,978 1 78590 205 5 Show More
by Arron Banks.
Biteback, 354 pp., £9.99, June 2017,
All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain’s Political Class
by Tim Shipman.
William Collins, 688 pp., £9.99, June 2017,978 0 00 821517 0 Show More
by Tim Shipman.
William Collins, 688 pp., £9.99, June 2017,
“... Next: How to Get the Best from Brexit. Striding into the sunlight, we encounter Adam Smith and David Ricardo and the slightly more contemporary figure of Theresa May, whose ambition to make Britain ‘the global leader in free trade’ Hannan quotes approvingly. Free trade is the great elixir. ‘Free trade doesn’t simply put more money into the hands of ... ”
A Walnut in Sacrifice
Nick Richardson: How to Cast a Spell, 7 November 2024
The Grimoire Encyclopedia: Volume 1
by David Rankine.
Hadean Press, 739 pp., £39.99, April 2023,978 1 914166 36 5 Show More
by David Rankine.
Hadean Press, 739 pp., £39.99, April 2023,
The Grimoire Encyclopedia: Volume 2
by David Rankine.
Hadean Press, 660 pp., £39.99, April 2023,978 1 914166 37 2 Show More
by David Rankine.
Hadean Press, 660 pp., £39.99, April 2023,
“... by nominal Christians who made a great show of piety in their writing.‘Solomon, the Son of David, King of Israel, hath said that the beginning of our Key is to fear God, to adore Him, to honour Him with contrition of heart, to invoke Him in all matters which we wish to undertake, and to operate with very great devotion, for thus God will lead us in the ... ”
By San Carlos Water
Neal Ascherson, 18 November 1982
Authors take sides on the Falklands
edited by Cecil Woolf and Jean Moorcroft Wilson.
Cecil Woolf, 144 pp., £4.95, August 1982,0 900821 63 9 Show More
edited by Cecil Woolf and Jean Moorcroft Wilson.
Cecil Woolf, 144 pp., £4.95, August 1982,
The Falklands War: The Full Story
by the Sunday Times ‘Insight’ Team.
Deutsch and Sphere, 276 pp., £2.50, October 1982,0 233 97515 2 Show More
by the Sunday Times ‘Insight’ Team.
Deutsch and Sphere, 276 pp., £2.50, October 1982,
The Winter War: The Falklands
by Patrick Bishop and John Witherow.
Quartet, 153 pp., £2.95, September 1982,0 7043 3424 0 Show More
by Patrick Bishop and John Witherow.
Quartet, 153 pp., £2.95, September 1982,
Iron Britannia: Why Parliament waged its Falklands war
by Anthony Barnett.
Allison and Busby, 160 pp., £2.95, November 1982,0 85031 494 1 Show More
by Anthony Barnett.
Allison and Busby, 160 pp., £2.95, November 1982,
Falklands/Malvinas: Whose Crisis?
by Martin Honeywell.
Latin American Bureau, 135 pp., £1.95, September 1982,0 906156 15 7 Show More
by Martin Honeywell.
Latin American Bureau, 135 pp., £1.95, September 1982,
A Message from the Falklands: The Life and Gallant Death of David Tinker, Lieut RN
compiled by Hugh Tinker.
Junction, 224 pp., £3.50, November 1982,0 86245 102 7 Show More
compiled by Hugh Tinker.
Junction, 224 pp., £3.50, November 1982,
“... by homicidal maniacs on a collision course are also coming closer to one another. The novelist David Lodge, in one of the earnest but flustered contributions typical of Authors take sides on the Falklands, is more realistic. He writes that regaining the Falklands is not worth one human life. But he then confesses: ‘There is no doubt in my mind that ... ”
Fat Man
Steven Shapin: Churchill’s Bomb, 26 September 2013
Churchill’s Bomb: A Hidden History of Science, War and Politics
by Graham Farmelo.
Faber, 554 pp., £25, October 2013,978 0 571 24978 7 Show More
by Graham Farmelo.
Faber, 554 pp., £25, October 2013,
“... dog, and if you don’t love my dog you damn well can’t love me.’) In Britain’s War Machine, David Edgerton makes the plausible judgment that ‘no scientist ever had more influence in British history; and probably no academic either.’* The Churchill who decided these matters was almost always a Churchill-Lindemann hybrid. Decision-making with respect ... ”
At the Pinault Collection
Anne Wagner: Charles Ray, 21 July 2022
“... steel make such concerted use of the brilliant light effects inherent in its surface. Only David Smith has pursued them as diligently as Ray. The two men share a commitment to contingency as well as a medium: not just steel (itself an alloy of iron), but stainless steel in particular, another alloy, first produced in the early 20th century by adding ... ”
At the Grand Palais
Andrew O’Hagan: The Lagerfeld Fandango, 18 July 2019
“... Coco Chanel died in her suite at the Ritz Hotel on 10 January 1971. Her funeral, held a few days later, caused a traffic jam on the rue Royale, with throngs in front of the Madeleine desperate to catch a glimpse of the departing coffin. The church had originally been conceived as a monument to the glories of Napoleon’s army, and remains a favourite with battle-scarred artists ... ”
A Pair of Lobsters in a Murky Tank
Theo Tait: James Lasdun, 9 March 2006
“... A woman threw her glass of wine at me,’ James Lasdun’s second novel begins. At a party held by a wealthy philanthropist in New York, a woman walks up to the narrator and asks: ‘Excuse me, are you Stefan Vogel?’ He says yes; she flings her wine in his face. In keeping with the novel’s mood of dreamlike self-absorption, the event is replayed many times ... ”
The Exploding Harpoon
Kathleen Jamie: Whales, 8 August 2013
The Sea Inside
by Philip Hoare.
Fourth Estate, 374 pp., £18.99, June 2013,978 0 00 741211 2 Show More
by Philip Hoare.
Fourth Estate, 374 pp., £18.99, June 2013,
“... book being read, a chapter a day, by people as different as Stephen Fry, Tilda Swinton, even David Cameron, as well as ordinary folk. The Sea Inside is most at ease when, again, he is in the company of whales. Companionable and entertaining, the book follows the recent fashion for combining memoir, travelogue, historical byways, natural history and ... ”
At the Movies
Andrew O’Hagan: M. Night Shyamalan, 17 July 2008
“... he sold himself, inside the movies and out, as a magical truth-teller, a big budget shaman who held the keys to several kingdoms. He then got a critical leathering for The Village (2004), a film which appeared to have extended all his certainties into paranoias. When this happens it is usual for a gifted director’s neediness to overcome his ... ”
Short Cuts
Christian Lorentzen: The Trump Regime, 1 December 2016
“... alt-right. Bannon has been appointed chief strategist in the Trump White House, the position held by Karl Rove during the Bush administration. Allegations about Bannon’s unsavoury character have ranged from anti-Semitism (his ex-wife’s affidavit in their divorce case alleges he didn’t want their daughters going to school with too many Jews) to ... ”
In Camden
Inigo Thomas, 5 December 2024
“... can only see so far: the maps give you an idea of what happened further off towards the horizon.David Bomberg was a fire-watcher in Kensington for much of the war, and was inspired by Piranesi’s etchings of the ruins of ancient Rome as he set about his charcoal drawings of London in 1944 and 1945. Nothing came of the topographical book he hoped to publish ... ”
The Auto-Erotic Device and the Whisky Bottle
Peter Campbell, 27 June 1991
Dance till the stars come down
by Frances Spalding.
Hodder, 271 pp., £25, May 1991,0 340 48555 8 Show More
by Frances Spalding.
Hodder, 271 pp., £25, May 1991,
“... make of his sailors, like the one who leans on a table spread with good things in Elizabeth David’s Book of Mediterranean Food. The housewives doubtless thought they were nice lads; in life and art the physical types which attracted Minton were butch. The boys in Hockney’s Cavafy illustrations would not have stepped so easily or so politely onto Mrs ... ”
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