Those who read 'Look Who's Back' will know that Vermes does white-knuckle satire. In this, he imagines a column of refugees walking to Europe in front of TV cameras.
She arrived in America in 1807 as a refugee from Napoleonic France. Her sketches of the world she encountered there must show what Madame de la Tour du Pin a decade earlier. A lovely book.
In this critique of economic models (including, perhaps, the above), the distinguished economist argues that philosophy, history, sociology, and politics are also essential to understanding ... read more
Keats wrote his six most famous odes in 1819: 'Ode to a Nightingale', 'Ode on a Grecian Urn', 'Ode to Melancholy', 'Ode on Indolence', 'Ode to Psyche' and 'On Autumn'. The Keats-Shelley Me... read more