“This tremendous aggregate of a book has many of the characteristics of a Festschrift assembled to honour some Great Influencer”: so, in 1973, the architectural historian Priscilla Metcalf began the f

LETTERS

V isions of the parched ground of last ...

“As movers and the moved both know”, John Updike noted, “books are heavy freight ... They make us think twice about changing addresses.” Books: A manifesto, or, How to build a library begins with the

THE money that we deposit into our bank accounts doesn’t just sit in a safe until we need to withdraw it. Banks use our money to fund their other profit-making activities – from loans to investments.

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