Violent Music – Acaster’s ‘Perfect Sound Whatever’
Perfect Sound Whatever is comedian James Acaster’s part-memoir, part-encyclopaedic recount of the records that made 2016 the Greatest Year for Music of All Time,...
Learning To Live – Educated by Tara Westover
‘Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery/ None but ourselves can free our mind’. These lyrics from Bob Marley’s ‘Redemption Song’ course through Tara Westover’s 2018...
Hartnell’s ‘Bodies’: Hugely readable
A review of Medieval Bodies by Jack Hartnell (Wellcome Collection, 2019, 352 pages)