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A compendium of literary responses to the Thames
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
The author’s selected letters shed more light on her emotional life than her thought
An elegant study of a talented war hero and those who shaped him
Dostoevsky tackled free will, Tolstoy the meaning of life – but is it still possible to write philosophical novels?
Novelist Angela Carter is remembered through her postcards in this affectionate homage
Confessional tape recordings of the eminent and the ordinary, from the former London Stock Exchange chairman to the late Lucian Freud’s butcher, are the basis of a growing oral archive at the British Library
I tried to assess how old-fashioned I am. It’s true I value tweed and showtunes, good manners, cake and starched linens
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