24 June 2009 | Reviewing, TLS, cities | Post a comment
The Times Literary Supplement has just published my review of Stephen Verderber's superb study Delirious New Orleans: Manifesto for an extraordinary American city (University of Texas Press). It's not on their site yet but you can read my version here.
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Homo sapiens is the only species that knows it will die. The thought obsesses us. From the earliest marks made on cave walls to our most sublime works of art, the fear of death haunts our every creation. And in the middle of the twentieth century, human beings became the first species to reach that pinnacle of evolution – the point at which it could engineer its own extinction.
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