Frauds/freuds 9: The Irish Professor

Barbara Ehrenreich : Living with a Wild God

Barbara Ehrenreich, writer, scientist, and political activist, died last September aged 81. Somehow we missed it at the time, so this is both a tribute to her and a quick look at the book where she tries to examine what she believes.

A N Wilson : Confessions : A Life of Failed Promises

‘Failed’ in what sense? Why does Andrew Wilson profess to regard his life as one of ‘failed promises’? Is it because he never got a tenured teaching position? Is it because he never got a PhD? Is it because his marriage to the academic Katherine Duncan-Jones failed? Is it because he never became an Anglican priest? Or a Catholic priest? Or ever firmly made up his mind about which religion he subscribed to?

Murray Bail : He.

Mary Karr: The Liars’ Club

A window on the world- good memoirs