In David Sedaris’s wry new collection, being alive is as weird, atrocious, contradictory, unfair and funny as ever. By Roddy Doyle Read along with the Book Review this summer: Can you check off five ...

First published in the United States by W.W.Norton and Company, on March 1 1997, Guns, Germs and Steel was initially subtitled ‘The Fates of Human Societies.’ Within a few months, this subtitle had ...

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