Tom Wein

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The Overstory by Richard Powers
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Much to enjoy in this ambitious novel, including the sensitive character work, but I loved it more when it allowed itself a plot in a later section, and I also wanted it to take one more step into the lives of the trees themselves, rather than those ...more
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The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
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Firstborn by Louise Glück
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This first collection has all the imperial sternness of her later work, but at least to my mood, not quite the inventive sly turns to leaven the New England chill.
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Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
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I never quite followed the effectively desiccated Aschenbach on his journey into his passionate derangement, barred by Mann's punctilious style. ...more
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Serpentine by Philip Pullman
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An incidental but very sweet revisit with Lyra and Pan that prefigures much of the emotional dynamic of The Secret Commonwealth, elevated by some wonderful woodcut illustrations.
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A Shropshire Lad by A.E. Housman
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A unique grasp of rhythm rewards reading aloud, but one pays a price in gauzy sentimentalism (occasionally leavened with guignol) in place of specificity. Hard to believe this would be remembered, had it not so strangely presaged the coming war.
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Unheard by Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan
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An effective drawing together of existing strands on dignity in UK medical care and research, underpinned by deep personal experience.
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Cloud Atlas by David  Mitchell
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Plenty of hearty satisfaction in this set of novellas, skimming across time like a well-tossed pebble. I don’t think the eye catching split structure or half-hearted connective threads do the work they could.
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Unbelievers by Alec Ryrie
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This neat history of European atheism convinces that what really matters are the recurrent anxious and angry questions of ordinary folk, not the grand treatises. An uncertain and rushed conclusion on contemporary secularism.
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How to Listen to Jazz by Ted Gioia
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Criticism is love clearly explained, and Gioia is among the clearest. A work of bright authority and pacey prose that demands to be read again.
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