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Stephen Phillips

As well as being a mythic tale, Moby-Dick is a superb guide to oceanography

Stephen Phillips 2 November 2019 9:00 am

Anyone who has read Moby-Dick will recognise the moment, 32 chapters in, when their line of attention, hitherto slackly paying…

Where were you when you read John Hersey’s ‘Hiroshima’?

Stephen Phillips 18 May 2019 9:00 am

Of how many magazine articles can you recall where you were and what you felt when you read them? If…

The father of American imperialism: Rough Rider Teddy Roosevelt (with a Native American companion)

America’s empire – a story of the secret and the convenient

Stephen Phillips 9 March 2019 9:00 am

Where other nations disbanded their empires following the second world war, America’s underwent transubstantiation, from something solid to something more…

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