Hints and tips:
...Wolfish: The Stories We Tell About Fear, Ferocity and Freedom by Erica Berry (Flatiron/Canongate) Understanding the wolf as both a folkloric totem and a vehicle for different takes on social mores, Berry...
...The “3.5 per cent rule” was drawn from work by Harvard professor Erica Chenoweth on the overthrow of dictators. Its application to climate protests in modern democracies was a stretch....
...The crisp-voiced Jones, who originated the roles of Peggy Schuyler and Maria Reynolds in Hamilton, supplies some vocal fireworks....
...Kettle’s is beloved by artists and designers; the Turner Prize nominee Anthea Hamilton calls it “a state of mind”....
...Chief Engineer: The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge, by Erica Wagner, Bloomsbury, RRP£20/$28 How Washington Roebling oversaw the creation of a New York landmark....
...Ali Smith, How to Be Both (Hamish Hamilton) The Scottish author’s novel is all about art’s versatility, borrowing from fresco painting techniques....
...The Kempers can be found in the history books as can several others: Aaron Burr, Thomas Jefferson’s disgraced vice-president, best-known for his fatal duel with Alexander Hamilton; and General Wilkinson,...
...Toby’s Room , by Pat Barker, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£16.99 Barker, who made the first world war her domain with the Regeneration trilogy, returns to it here....
...Mr Hamilton zeroed in on my sloppy punctuation. Miss McRae made me learn 100 poems off by heart. Miss Musgrave made it clear she thought I had a bit of flair....
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