A Short History of Ireland by John Gibney, Yale, 256pp, £16.99 Irish history does not need much in the way of authorial flourishes in order to exert its grip…
Religion vs Science by Elaine Howard Ecklund and Christopher Scheitle, oup, 240pp, £20 Is there a tension between science and religious belief? Or can they happily coexist, perhaps even enriching each other? These questions have been debated since the 17th century, and were given a higher profile through the rise of the “New Atheism”, championed by Richard Dawkins…
What Are We Doing Here? by Marilynne Robinson, Virago, 315pp, £19 As a novelist and essayist, Marilynne Robinson is unusual – unusual for our time, that is…
The passion of Oscar Wilde