Reviewed in the LRB - Vol. 47 No. 1

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A provocative and personal examination, ranging from medieval mystics to T. S. Eliot and Krautrock, from Britain's most engaging and inventive philosopherMysticism is about existential ecstasy - an experience of heightening one's senses and…

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Son of the Midwest, movie star and mesmerising politician—America's fortieth president comes to three-dimensional life in this gripping and profoundly revisionist biographyFrom best-selling biographer Max Boot comes this revelatory…

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Warhol superstar and transgender icon Candy Darling was glamour personified, but she was without a real place in the world. Growing up on Long Island, lonely and quiet and queer, she was enchanted by Hollywood starlets like Kim Novak. She…

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A uniquely data-rich analysis of the British elite from the Victorian era to today: who gets in, how they get there, what they like and look like, where they go to school, and what politics they perpetuate.Think of the British elite and…

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A classic work of social science from 'the twentieth century's most prophetic critic of capitalism' Prospect‘One of the most powerful books in the social sciences ever written. ... A must-read’ Thomas Piketty'The…

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A radical new history of energy and humanity's insatiable need for resources that will change the way we talk about climate change**A FINANCIAL TIMES AND THE ECONOMIST BEST SCIENCE BOOKS OF 2024**A radical new history of…

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The untold story of the role of humanitarian NGOs in building the neoliberal order after empireAfter India gained independence in 1947, Britain reinvented its role in the global economy through nongovernmental aid organizations. Utilizing…

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A monumental intellectual history of the pivotal figure of Hindu nationalismVinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883–1966) was an intellectual, ideologue, and anticolonial nationalist leader in India’s struggle for independence from…

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Whether a surrealist exploration of the anxieties surrounding automation, or a mystery concerning a goldsmith, missing jewels, and a spate of murders, each tale in this collection reveals the complexities of human desire and fear. Music and…

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Exploring Paris arm in arm with Balzac, nineteenth-century France’s most famous novelist and observerIn Balzac’s vast Human Comedy, a body of ninety-one completed novels and stories, he endeavoured to create a complete…

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Translated from the French by Peter Bush, introduction by Geoffrey O’BrienA story of impossible and unsatisfied desire, Balzac’s The Lily in the Valley opens with a scene of desire unleashed. Félix de…