library
A world full of noises
The world Ruth Ozeki creates in The Book of Form & Emptiness resembles one of the snow globes that pop…
Low life
‘Yes, I will have a coffee,’ said the van driver. He’d driven down to the south of France from Devon.…
The joy of rummaging through Gladstone’s annotated books
Gladstone’s Library began as that most English of things: a great man’s visionary idea. William Gladstone, at the age of…
Away with the angels?
John Dee liked to talk to spirits but he was no loony witch, says Christopher Howse
The library in the Jungle
In the middle of the Calais migrant camp, there is a book-filled haven of peace
