Articles 2019-
Aotearoa New Zealand
Books, authors, literature:
Bruce Chatwin: Letters from a fallen angel
https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/bruce-chatwin-letters-from-a-fallen-angel-6506843.html
On Bruce Chatwin
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1989/03/02/on-bruce-chatwin/
Michael Ignatieff, New York Review of Books
Bruce Chatwin, the forgotten traveller is at last being remembered
https://www.theoldie.co.uk/blog/bruce-chatwin-the-forgotten-travel-writer-is-at-last-being-remembered
Nicholas Shakespeare, The Oldie, September, 2019
Susan Sontag was a monster
Marina Benjamin, in Aeon
https://aeon.co/essays/susan-sontag-was-a-monster-of-the-very-best-kind
Who are thou, Shakespeare? - How the classics made Shakespeare
Michael Dirda, The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/who-art-thou-shakespeare/2019/05/22/94f27386-7bdb-11e9-8bb7-0fc796cf2ec0_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.446d4fcdd314
Walking Alone: on "Digital Minimalism"
Taylor Foyle, Los Angeles Review of Books, 10 June 2019
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/walking-alone-on-digital-minimalism/
The Bounty review: How Peter FitzSimons and Alan Frost see the mutiny
The Sydney Morning Herald, Michael Pembroke, 7 December 2018
https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/the-bounty-review-how-peter-fitzsimons-and-alan-frost-see-the-mutiny-20181206-h18tp1.html
What lies beneath: Robert Macfarlane travels 'Underland'
Robert Macfarlane
The Guardian, 20 April 2019
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/20/what-lies-beneath-robert-macfarlane
The New York Times, 30 August 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/30/books/review/by-the-book-ben-macintyre.html
Aeon.
Clive James
Claerwen James on growing up with an extraordinary father, Clive James.
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/sep/27/he-returned-to-what-he-really-was-clive-jamess-daughter-on-his-poetic-farewell?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR1uH7bMFBKKc8hfgbXpGcy_PPvu6PmuqnJMwCk73m9T0qKFuKJI2J6AWP8#Echobox=1601203044
Oliver Sacks
Oliver Sacks (1933-2015) obituary
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11833684/Oliver-Sacks-neurologist-obituary.html
Theology & Philosophy
Public theology in retreat
Brad East, The Los Angeles Review of Books
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/public-theology-in-retreat/#!
The abuses of Popper
Charlotte Sleigh. Aeon.
https://aeon.co/essays/how-popperian-falsification-enabled-the-rise-of-neoliberalism
Modernity, Faith and Martin Buber
Adam Kirsch, in the New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/06/modernity-faith-and-martin-buber
How Martin Luther paved the way for Donald Trump, Michael Massing, The Nation, May, 2018https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/how-martin-luther-paved-the-way-for-donald-trump/
Ten rules of philosophy to live by - Julian Baggini, The Guardian, 4 February, 2023
Think yourself better: 10 rules of philosophy to live by | Philosophy books | The Guardian
Articles on poetry
The Pen & the Spade - the making of poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths and their year of marvels
Nicholas Roe
https://literaryreview.co.uk/the-pen-and-the-spade
Believing in New Zealand: The South Island Myth Revisited
Michael Grimshaw
https://www.pantograph-punch.com/post/believing-in-new-zealand-south-island-myth-revisited
The Pantograph Punch
The world and times we live in:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/nyt-tom-cotton-oped-liberalism.html
The Tom Cotton Op-Ed and the Cultural Revolution - How liberalism, and the liberal media, are changing before our eyes.
Persona: The Dark Truths about Personality Tests. Review
https://mashable.com/article/persona-the-dark-truth-behind-personality-testing-review/
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/nov/25/society-thatcher-reagan-covid-pandemic
Is Society coming Apart? Jill Lepore The Guardian 25 November 2021
The Unbearable Unawareness of Our Ecological Existential Crisis | MR Online
The Unbearable Unawareness of Our Ecological Existential Crisis by Alvaro J. de Regil, 8 April 2023, Monthly Review Online
By Álvaro J. de Regil (Posted Apr 08, 2023)
Korea:
Rebekah Jaung in the Spinoff, 7 December 2018
https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/07-12-2018/what-role-can-new-zealand-play-in-bridging-ties-between-the-two-koreas/
By Colleen Moore, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, 16 March 2023
The US must trade muscles for diplomacy to end the North Korean nuclear crisis - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (thebulletin.org)