The Self-Help Compulsion: Searching for Advice in Modern Literature, by Beth Blum Gail Marshall considers a wide-ranging exploration of readers’ desire to find life lessons in books of many kinds Gail Marshall 3月 12日
Human Forms: The Novel in the Age of Evolution, by Ian Duncan Gail Marshall applauds an intriguing study of the relations between Charles Darwin, George Eliot and Charles Dickens Gail Marshall 11月 28日
Quaint, Exquisite: Victorian Aesthetics and the Idea of Japan, by Grace E. Lavery Gail Marshall applauds an impressive analysis of our changing images of Japan Gail Marshall 6月 27日
How History Gets Things Wrong: The Neuroscience of Our Addiction to Stories, by Alex Rosenberg Do we learn incorrect and harmful lessons from our hard-wired love of narrative? asks Gail Marshall Gail Marshall 10月 25日
Elements of Surprise: Our Mental Limits and the Satisfactions of Plot, by Vera Tobin Book of the week: this careful analysis shows cognitive science can be a critical literary tool, writes Gail Marshall Gail Marshall 5月 10日
Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World, by Lyndall Gordon Exclusion from male-dominated society fuelled female authors’ creativity, says Gail Marshall Gail Marshall 11月 23日
