From Tolstoyan Russia to the Mongolian steppe and summers on the Gulf of Finland... here are some of …
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Finding the courage to start afresh with Murakami in Killing Commendatore
When I talk to people about Haruki Murakami, I tend to divide his work (perhaps unfairly) into two …
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Consolations of the Forest: Alone in a Cabin in the Middle Taiga by Sylvain Tesson
I have a soft spot for escaping from the world. I also love escaping into books. Books about …
“A hunter knows when to quiet his mind”: Sherlock Holmes, Maria Konnikova, and a defence of solitude
I wrote in my last article about the classical scholar Edith Hamilton, who wrote of Aeschylus: …