The politics of the English summer house
Adrian Tinniswood documents the history of the English country house in the interwar years
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book reviews
Confessions of a bad singer
Tim Falconer’s scientific look at how humans hear music
In-Between Days offers a deeply affecting memoir
Teva Harrison offers a poignant account of living with cancer
How America armed itself
Pamela Haag’s detailed and devastating history of gun culture in America
A campus for the School of Hard Knocks
Cordelia Strube’s latest novel is ’quietly elegiac and despairing’
Greece’s Marxist former finance minister speaks
Yanis Varoufakis’s assessment of what’s wrong with the Eurozone
A former Catholic’s epiphany about gay marriage
Michael Coren brick-by-brick account of his change of heart
My lover the convict: The allure of incarcerated men
Diane Schoemperlen’s tortuous six-year relationship with a convicted killer
A Burglar’s Guide to the City
Geoff Manaugh gives us a thief’s-eye-view of urban design
Penis thievery and other strange syndromes
The Geography of Madness maps the roots of suffering