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April 02, 2015

Book Review: The Last Word

April 02, 2015/ Robert Minto

The incestuously-close relationship between a literary biographer and his subject lies at the heart of Hanif Kureishi's new novel

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April 02, 2015/ Robert Minto/
Fiction
April 2015, fiction
March 31, 2015

Thinking in Quotations

March 31, 2015/ Robert Minto

On its schematic blueprints, the latest book by noted literary polymath Alberto Manguel is "about" Dante's Divine Comedy - but as Robert Minto discovers, this author is at his best when he's digressing.

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March 31, 2015/ Robert Minto/
Fiction, Literary Criticism
April 2015, Book Review, fiction, literary criticism, Robert Minto
March 19, 2015

Book Review: Plato's Wayward Path

March 19, 2015/ Robert Minto

Plato might be Western philosophy's first great writer, but a new book argues we've mostly been reading him wrong.

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March 19, 2015/ Robert Minto/
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March 2015, philosophy
March 13, 2015

Book Review: Those Who Write For Immortality

March 13, 2015/ Robert Minto

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work," Woody Allen famously quipped; "I want to achieve immortality through not dying." Robert Minto reviews a new book on what it takes to make it big in the literary afterlife

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March 13, 2015/ Robert Minto/
Literary Criticism, Poetry
fiction, literary criticism, March 2015, Poetry
February 28, 2015

Inheritance of Anger

February 28, 2015/ Robert Minto

The great Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa claims he became a writer in order to annoy his father; his new novel takes up this age-old theme of the strife between fathers and sons.

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February 28, 2015/ Robert Minto/
Fiction, Literary Criticism
Book Review, fiction, literary criticism, March 2015, Robert Minto
February 18, 2015

Book Review: The Just City

February 18, 2015/ Robert Minto

In Jo Walton's latest novel, the "just city" of Plato's Republic is brought to life via Greek gods, robots, and a little discreet time travel

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February 18, 2015/ Robert Minto/
Fiction, Science Fiction
February 2015, fiction, jo walton, science fiction
February 11, 2015

Book Review: Sartre: A Philosophical Biography

February 11, 2015/ Robert Minto

Sartre the man takes a distant back seat to Sartre the thinker in Thomas Flynn's new intellectual biography

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February 11, 2015/ Robert Minto/
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February 2015, philosophy
November 30, 2014

Something Beyond the Chaos

November 30, 2014/ Robert Minto

The author made immortal by the novel Dune also wrote a career's worth of short stories. Robert Minto looks at the first-ever complete collection of those stories.

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November 30, 2014/ Robert Minto/
Fiction, Literary Criticism, Science Fiction
Book Review, December 2014, fiction, frank herbert, literary criticism, Robert Minto
October 31, 2014

Thinking in Common

October 31, 2014/ Robert Minto

The great critic and essayist Irving Howe laid claim to a great many decayed traditions - and then elevated them all to high art. A new collection of his prose presents some of his gems.

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October 31, 2014/ Robert Minto/
Arts & Life, Politics & History
Book Review, November 2014, Robert Minto
October 08, 2014

Book Review: The Unsubstantial Air

October 08, 2014/ Robert Minto

Even before America entered the First World War, daring young Americans were taking to the skies over France, and during the war some of their exploits became legendary; a gripping new history tells the story of America's first air war.

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October 08, 2014/ Robert Minto/
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first world war, October 2014
September 30, 2014

Woven and Severed

September 30, 2014/ Robert Minto

For millennia, the mighty tales in the epics of Homer have challenged and enthralled the world; a thought-provoking new book seeks to understand why.

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September 30, 2014/ Robert Minto/
Arts & Life
Book Review, homer, October 2014, philosophy, Robert Minto
August 31, 2014

The Done Thing

August 31, 2014/ Robert Minto

England had been at war with France almost continuously since the Norman Conquest, but in the Hundred Years War, the conflict became especially heightened - and transformative. A new history tells the story as a rattling good yarn.

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August 31, 2014/ Robert Minto/
Politics & History
Book Review, Robert Minto, September 2014
August 30, 2014

Book Review: Demon's Brood

August 30, 2014/ Robert Minto

Before the headline-grabbing Tudor dynasty, England was ramped from end to end by an even greater and more terrible family of kings and queens. They were the mighty Plantagenets, and a new book tells their story

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August 30, 2014/ Robert Minto/
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August 2014, desmond seward, Robert Minto
June 30, 2014

Only Him

June 30, 2014/ Robert Minto

In the discipline of philosophy, "Aristotelian" evokes not just a school of thought but an entire world. "Ethics After Aristotle" traces the history and impact of the most influential thought-tradition of them all.

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June 30, 2014/ Robert Minto/
Arts & Life
Aristotle, Book Review, July 2014, Robert Minto
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