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‘Every now and then the city shook its soul out’: Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin [review]

by Belle Place , July 14, 2010 • 2 Comments

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (Allen and Unwin) ISBN: 978-1-4088-0118-5 RRP: $32.99 It is August 1974, and at the bottom of the World Trade Centre, birds are being scooped into zip lock bags, so ‘dazzled by the building’s lights, they crashed into the glass’. It has just been constructed; … Read more »

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Review: AC Grayling’s Thinking of Answers

by , June 25, 2010 • 1 Comment

A C Grayling Thinking of Answers Bloomsbury Publishing (Allen and Unwin) $35 (hardback) 978 1 4088 0598 5 Despite its unimaginative title, A C Grayling’s collection of philosophical essays, Thinking of Answers, is a thoughtful and a thought-provoking book. Grayling – a professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck … Read more »