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  • Friday, 1 July, 2016
    ReviewLife & Arts
    Summer reading 2016

    FT critics and experts select their must-read titles

  • Friday, 19 February, 2016
    ReviewLife & Arts
    ‘At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being and Apricot Cocktails’, by Sarah Bakewell

    An eloquent and purposeful guide through the thickets of existential philosophy is unafraid to explore the lives as well as the ideas of its subjects

  • Friday, 10 April, 2015
    ReviewLife & Arts
    ‘The World Beyond Your Head’, by Matthew Crawford

    Besieged by virtual demands on our attention, we are losing touch with the world

  • Friday, 5 December, 2014
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    ‘Juvenescence’, by Robert Pogue Harrison

    Is our culture failing to preserve the delicate balance between innovation and tradition?

  • Friday, 24 October, 2014
    ReviewLife & Arts
    ‘The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters’, by Adam Nicolson

    For Adam Nicolson, Homer’s ‘fearless encounter with the dreadful’ is as relevant as ever

  • Friday, 29 August, 2014
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    ‘The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science’, by Armand Marie Leroi

    Aristotle’s biological studies on Lesbos and their intriguing echoes in modern science

  • Friday, 11 April, 2014
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    ‘Culture and the Death of God’; ‘The Soul of the World’

    Two bold thinkers make the case for religious values in a secular world

  • Friday, 11 October, 2013
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    The Library: A World History, by James Campbell
  • Friday, 6 September, 2013
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    Danubia, by Simon Winder

    A central European odyssey delights

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