The description of money as dirty has a long history in English literature, from Shylock’s account of usury to Martin Amis’s novel Money (1984) to Caryl Churchill’s play Serious Money (1987). Mostly t

Review of reviews: Books

Review of reviews: Books

One of the least financially literate people I have ever met was a friend who as a teenager accumulated an unarranged overdraft of £50 on her newly opened bank account. Having been told she must recti

“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

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