Melita Teale is a writer and media analyst.
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Book Review: Evolution for Everyone - How Darwin’s Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives by David Sloan Wilson
Evolution may be for everyone, but this book is only for some. At least it's not The God Delusion.
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Book Review: Wall and Piece by Banksy
Amusing, engaging, and most of all inspirational.
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Book Review: After Dark by Haruki Murakami
A delicious, lingering book that gets clearer and muddier with every chapter.
Genius and poignancy come together in a half-finished book that feels perfect.
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Book Review: The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
Hamid treats us to an articulate narrator walking through and away from the American Dream.
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Book Review: David Golder by Irene Nemirovsky
A perfect character portrait within an unengaged novella.
It's been done before, done better, and done without leaving a nasty aftertaste.
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Diamonds Are a Git’s Best Friend
Without massive marketing and massive insecurity complexes, would we dig these bastards out of the ground?
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Book Review: Goya by Robert Hughes
Hughes has produced a stunning book on the life and works of Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes.
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Book Review: Things I Didn't Know by Robert Hughes
Bafflingly, Hughes has produced a disappointing Godfather Part III of an autobiography.
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