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At nine years old, Sylvie meets her one great love at school in Paris: her best friend Andrée. The two girls could hardly be more...

Michael Pollan is one of my favourite discoveries of recent years. This is Your Mind on Plants is his most recent book, consisting of...

Why Marx Was Right is Terry Eagleton’s attempt at making Karl Marx’s theory accessible to all and to provide socialists with some...

How to live? Read a lot, forget most of what you’ve read, and be slow-witted! How do you make peace with the fact of death? How do you...

“We may be intolerant even in advocating the cause of Toleration, and so bent on making proselytes to free-thinking as to allow no one to...

Feminist writer bell hooks’ All About Love: New Visions is a passionate exploration of how we do and appeal to how we should love. What...

Everyone who eats should read this book! What should we have for dinner? For omnivores like ourselves this question always causes...

What would the world look like, if we didn’t assume the worst of our fellow human beings? If collectively we had a positive, an...

“Writing and gardening, these two ways of rendering the world in rows, have a great deal in common.” Disguised as a gardening book,...

In the Bec-da-Gaz bar, towards the end of 1932, philosopher Raymond Aron made a statement that would kickstart the development of...

Justice in a Changing World is an introduction to the philosophical debate surrounding the question of global justice - what do we owe to...