Analysis Essay Samples - Page 2

By George Hoare Richard Hoggart’s The Uses of Literacy, re-issued at the end of last year by Penguin, is an important book, and there are…

By Nicky Charlish ‘They fuck you up, your mum and dad’. Almost forty years after the deeply conservative poet Philip Larkin wrote these words about…

By Mark Carrigan It has now been a year and a half since the onset of the financial crisis, and the original dearth of literature…

By Dolan Cummings Ian Buruma’s short book is a kind of sequel to Death in Amsterdam, his book about the murder of Theo van Gogh…

By Robin Walsh It is commonplace today that chimpanzees are our brothers. They are 98% genetically identical to us, and they and bonobos are closer…

By Nicky Charlish The mountains of words that have been written on Andy Warhol rival the supermarket stacks of the soup cans which, via his…

By Karl Sharro In a thought-provoking article in The Global Urbanist, the urban designer Mike Duff discusses how cities can embrace urban agriculture and weaken…

By Patrick West One often hears it remarked it is ironic that Islamists employ the tools of modernity in their mission to destroy it. Those…

By Steven Michels Sinclair Lewis is experiencing a renaissance of late—but not for a reason he would have liked. His 1935 novel, It Can’t Happen…

By Sean Bell It is a good story: a disillusioned policy wonk and former cubicle drone forgoes the certainties of highly-paid intellectual work to find…

By Angus Kennedy Reviewing Daniel Ben-Ami’s excellent Ferraris for All, Bryan Appleyard dubbed him a ‘hard human exceptionalist’ for his defence of the need for…

By Ellen J. Stockstill The first sight to greet the reader upon opening William Booth’s In Darkest England and the Way Out (1890), his book…

By Robin Walsh Clive Hamilton has written a remarkable book. He has managed to take environmentalism and strip out its positive aspects—its utopianism and humanitarianism,…

By David Bowden Second parts of trilogies are notoriously hard work: by definition, they are to some extent shorn of the structural unity offered by…

By Nicky Charlish Sex, drugs, and rock and roll are all stuff that come to mind when people talk of the counterculture. We are all…

By Stephen Bowler Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a popular book. The publishers say they have sold 2.7 million copies in…

By Rob Clowes Civilisation is in many respects an unfashionable idea, or at least one that makes many people uncomfortable. Why do we feel this…

By Richard Swan Imagine standing on the west coast of Ireland a thousand years ago, told to remain on guard against a potential invasion. Then…

By Timandra Harkness For a while, around the 1970s and 1980s, it went right out of fashion to say men and women were naturally different.…

By Dan Summers JG Ballard’s novel Crash was highly controversial when it was published in 1973, as was David Cronenberg’s 1996 film adaptation, marrying the…