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10 Schools of Philosophy that should be better known (in the West)
Julian Baggini
The author of How The World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy explains ten of the most overlooked philosophies from around the world.
Anthony Bailey | A London View
Anthony Bailey
I come from a generation which still, fifty-odd years on, looks up and once in a while thinks, 'Good, one of ours.'
Funny Noises with our Mouths
Beryl Bainbridge
‘If we went out to tea in Southport and my mother left a tip under the plate, my grandmother used to pick it up and slide it into her handbag.’
La Mer
Nicholson Baker
‘I heard Debussy's side-slipping water-slopes, with cold spray blown off their crests’
Resist: A Letter from Greece
Natalie Bakopoulos
‘This June, I arrived in Athens just in time for a strike that had halted the metro from the airport to the city.’
Violence in Blue
Patrick Ball
‘One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police.’
The Mission
Tom Bamforth
‘It is strange, the rituals we find ourselves carrying out before the unknown.’
Lost and Found
Je Banach
‘And yet, despite the overwhelming evidence of Lamb’s influence on contemporary writing, the nineteenth-century superstar has been largely ignored and mostly forgotten.’
Little Durga
Shampa Banerjee
‘I groaned inwardly when anybody mentioned Pather Panchali and my small part in it.’
What Bengali Widows Cannot Eat
Chitrita Banerji
‘Spring in Bengal is teasing and elusive, secret yet palpable, waiting to be discovered.’
Introducing Javier Arancibia Contreras
Andrés Barba
‘In this story, the troubled translator’s only interlocutor is, of course, a rat with human vices and traits.’
