Why science wouldn’t exist without alchemy, curiosity and great writing: Books in brief

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'This book draws attention to those who process their early experiences with a wry, critical ear rather than a cheery nostalgic one, producing work haunted by melancholic disremembering.'

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‘Madame Composer’ and ‘Johannes Brahms’: The Keys to the Heart

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Listen now: New Books Network interviews Timothy Mowl on his new book, All Around is Fairy Ground

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Listen now: New Books Network interviews Paul Chrystal on his new book, The Romans: A People's History

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Pericles - A Life

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A new publication from @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
that I found fascinating and gripping.
Fantastic read.

Heading Down the Same Bob Dylan Road: Although How Many Roads isn’t an essential Bob Dylan biography, not all books have to be necessary to be effective and rewarding.

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Looking Class: Timely questions lurk at the heart of connoisseurship: What counts as originality, what value do we place on it, how do we protect it?

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Super fun @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with @leafyhistory.bsky.social about @reaktionbooks.bsky.social Creatures of Story and Song: Tracing #Britain 's Lost Species #skystorians #folklore #NaturalHistory

What a Difference a Voice Makes: Andy Burnham and Paul Cartledge's Pericles

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Pongs of praise: the history and importance of smell for our antisceptic age

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Book Review: The Contradictory Voice of W.H. Auden

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Listen now: What do astronauts eat? How do they get exercise? What are space toilets like? All this and more are answered in the new book by Inquiry’s guest tonight, Peter Bond!

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John Minford’s China Bookshelf: The veteran literary translator tells us how his collection began, why his library is called “Three Dog Hall,” and how New Zealand pine is the best shelving material.

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Peter Bond - Out of This World: Life as an Astronaut ...with TRE's Giles Brown

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The @reaktionbooks.bsky.social Spring/Summer 2027 catalogue: superb bios of Pushkin, Gogol, William Morris and Rabelais, a wonderful study of Samuel Palmer, David Batchelor's Chromocopia: The Colours of Colour, Geraldine Johnson's Sculpted By Light and much more. reaktionbooks.co.uk/wp-content/u...

Listen now: Thomas More's Utopia

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All are welcome at this talk in Oxford, 14 October. A belated book launch too, so drinks and nibbles generously supported by June and Simon Li. www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/events/ming-... @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

Medieval mental health: Saffron and ostrich liver were prescribed but so were exercise, gardens, animals, socialising, and music

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