Andrew Carpenter

Articles by Andrew Carpenter

2017

  • A Century in Print

    Toby Barnard’s quirky and often humorous study of Irish publishing in the eighteenth century contains an immense quantity of information gleaned from a huge variety…

  • A Life with Opinions

    Should a book which contains passages clearly the product of imaginative re-creation be marketed as a biography? Jonathan Swift’s contradictions encourage many different kinds of…