I’d like the kids to ask if I’ve read a book and me to portentously tell them everything ... green letters have been attached ...

Last February, I picked up Walden on a Saturday morning and hoped to get through the first chapter. But by evening, I had not started any work, had not eaten and had torn halfway through the book.

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I’d like the kids to ask if I’ve read a book and me to portentously tell them everything is alphabetised next door ... It has a frontage, first put up in 1979 and seemingly not touched since: on ...

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Populists Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings are leading the British government, but they are struggling against consequences of their own making. The BBC director general and his chief enemy in ...

Three new books make the case for music as medicine. In “The Schubert Treatment,” the most lyrical of the trio, a cellist takes us bedside with the sick and the dying. By Alexandra Jacobs ...