Books
From cholera to coronavirus
A forgotten novel offers insights into living with a deadly and dehumanising pandemic
Light from darkness
Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family and Social Class by Rob Henderson
Healers who harm
Bad Therapy: Why The Kids Aren’t Growing Up by Abigail Shrier
The misanthropic history man
Yuval Noah Harari has become an intellectual superstar, but his predictions have become wilder and sillier
Kilkenny’s golden age
A fascinating exploration of Irish history could have been better and more comprehensively illustrated
Playing the victim
A new book satirises the bizarre dynamics of social justice activism
Return of the referendum?
More direct democracy could be Europe’s only means of restoring political legitimacy
The false prophets of war and turmoil
All eight of Whatmore’s subjects would have been astounded by the
stability of the British state through the 19th century
Postcards from before the war
It is no longer possible to reflect upon Israeli culture as if the “Question of Palestine” could be brushed aside
There is a lushness to this expanded Letters
There is frequent reporting of local news, often betraying a hobbit-like
preoccupation with the availability of beer