5,628 book reviews and counting...

"it has a definite design – like that of a garden..."

"her drily witty sentences snap like sushki, the crunchy sugared bread rings Russians eat with their coffee..."

"Could a gentler, mutually beneficial co‑operation between species help shape a green future?..."

"A diligent account of the country’s recent travails — and its slow, painful route out of them..."

"Epic Continent brings out the many ironies of literary and political history..."

"interesting, sharp, swift..."

"both fascinating and troubling..."

"brings the reader closer to some realities of land and sea..."

"the former mayor’s account offers no deep thinking about his impact on today’s London..."

"a personal, enjoyable celebration of the Thames from source to sea..."

"Faced with the loss of beloved landscapes, some passionate individuals have taken action at enormous cost and personal risk...."

"a valuable contribution to musicology and an informative tribute to a musical culture...."

"charming..."

"some of the descriptive writing is wonderfully vivid – cinematic even..."

"Kaag has a pleasingly wry, compact style, and is particularly interesting on thinkers that Nietzsche influenced heavily..."

"Politics and a decades-long father–son struggle..."