The Inseparables by Simone de Beauvoir
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...
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Aug 9, 20222 min read
This is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan is one of my favourite discoveries of recent years. This is Your Mind on Plants is his most recent book, consisting of...
May 24, 20222 min read
Why Marx Was Right by Terry Eagleton
Why Marx Was Right is Terry Eagleton’s attempt at making Karl Marx’s theory accessible to all and to provide socialists with some...
May 12, 20222 min read
How to Live: A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell
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...
Sep 7, 20212 min read
All That Is Worth Remembering
“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...
Jun 22, 20213 min read
all about love by bell hooks
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...
May 4, 20213 min read
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Everyone who eats should read this book! What should we have for dinner? For omnivores like ourselves this question always causes...
Apr 13, 20212 min read
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
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...
Jan 26, 20212 min read
Second Nature by Michael Pollan
“Writing and gardening, these two ways of rendering the world in rows, have a great deal in common.” Disguised as a gardening book,...
Jan 12, 20212 min read
At the Existentialist Café by Sarah Bakewell
In the Bec-da-Gaz bar, towards the end of 1932, philosopher Raymond Aron made a statement that would kickstart the development of...
Oct 29, 20201 min read
Justice in a Changing World by Cécile Fabre
Justice in a Changing World is an introduction to the philosophical debate surrounding the question of global justice - what do we owe to...
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