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There is something magnificent about the ambition of Iain McGilchrist’s book. It offers nothing less than an account of human nature and Western civilisation as outcomes of the competition between the ...

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With The Real Lolita, Sarah Weinman might be said to have invented a completely new genre: true-crime literary criticism, which is not to be confused with truly criminal literary criticism, which, of ...

@RankinNick gives the question his best shot. Nicholas Rankin - We Shall Fight in the Buttery Nicholas Rankin: We Shall Fight in the Buttery - Oxford’s War 1939–1945 by Ashley Jackson For the first ...

@RankinNick gives the question his best shot. Nicholas Rankin - We Shall Fight in the Buttery Nicholas Rankin: We Shall Fight in the Buttery - Oxford’s War 1939–1945 by Ashley Jackson For the first ...

Receive free articles, highlights from the archive, news, details of prizes, and much more. ‘The Second World War was won in Oxford. Discuss.’ @RankinNick gives the question his best shot. Nicholas ...

@RankinNick gives the question his best shot. Nicholas Rankin - We Shall Fight in the Buttery Nicholas Rankin: We Shall Fight in the Buttery - Oxford’s War 1939–1945 by Ashley Jackson For the first ...

@RankinNick gives the question his best shot. Nicholas Rankin - We Shall Fight in the Buttery Nicholas Rankin: We Shall Fight in the Buttery - Oxford’s War 1939–1945 by Ashley Jackson For the first ...

Receive free articles, highlights from the archive, news, details of prizes, and much more. ‘The Second World War was won in Oxford. Discuss.’ @RankinNick gives the question his best shot. Nicholas ...