"Having now read Max Egremont's comprehensive and perceptive book... I'm relieved I didn't.
Her perceptive book "Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran" conveys the diversity of Iranians and the subtleties, dilemmas and contradictions of their society today.
He has also written a perceptive book about science and its civic value, arriving as the White House renews its acquaintance with empiricism.
From the early 1980s on she wrote highly original and perceptive book reviews for the Jewish Chronicle, New Democrat and Financial Times, where some of her mind-stilling minimalist verse and lyrical prose also first appeared.
He wrote a perceptive book on the Arts Council's role, The Arts and the People (1987), and then edited The Spread of Sponsorship (1993), which contains devastating criticisms of business practice in the arts, and of education and sports sponsorship.
It is a possibility that resonates in the mind and in the soul, and it underscores the truth of Mr. Feiler's comment near the end of this thoughtful, informed and perceptive book: that the Bible possesses an extraordinary ability "to make itself relevant to anyone who encounters it".
Yet as Stanley Plumly points out in "Posthumous Keats," his moving and perceptive book about him, there is something elusive, mysterious and attention getting about the epitaph, which is after all inscribed in stone in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome; it's as if Keats were stage-managing his reputation from beyond the grave.
John Bayley, in his perceptive book Pushkin: A Comparative Commentary, has faulted Shklovsky's formalism, arguing that as with Tolstoy's or Shakespeare's characters, we are encouraged by artifice to think of Onegin and Tatiana as real people with real motives and surprising actions - who knew that Onegin would fall in love with Tatiana?
As a way in, try Alain de Botton's amazingly perceptive book, How Proust Can Change Your Life.
