Dennis Duncan

A loose run-through of several millennia’s worth of epistemology and approaches to the transmission of knowledge

The Written World and the Unwritten World: Essays by Italo Calvino reviewed

The Library: A Fragile History by Andrew Pettegree and Arthur Der Weduwen reviewed

The Madman’s Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History by Edward Brooke-Hitching reviewed