Our Culture, What's Left Of It

by Theodore Dalrymple

Overview

In this incisive and beautifully-written collection of essays Theodore Dalrymple writes about subjects as diverse as the legalisation of drugs, the death of Princess Diana and Marxism. He uses his years of experience as a psychiatrist to give his clear-sighted views on the breakdown of Islam, the work of George Orwell and gets inside the mind of the criminals he once treated.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940158153716
Publisher:	Monday Books
Publication date:	10/23/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	340
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Author, doctor, psychiatrist and journalist Theodore Dalrymple was born in London in 1949 to a German mother and Russian father. After qualifying as a doctor in 1974, he chose to travel and take his trade to the far flung shores of Zimbabwe, Tanzania, South Africa and the Gilbert Islands. When he returned to the United Kingdom he worked in the East End of London and then inner city Birmingham in a hospital and the nearby prison. His medical work has brought him into contact with drug addicts and alcoholics, career criminals and sex offenders, the mentally disturbed and battered wives and their lives have inspired him to write. He has also appeared as an expert witness in numerous murder trials.

Dalrymple has written widely and regularly for publications as diverse as The Spectator, The New Statesman, The Times, The Times Literary Supplement, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph, The Sunday Times, and The British Medical Journal, as well as many prestigious American magazines and newspapers.

He also writes under his real name Anthony Daniels. Now retired from medical work, he is still a prolific writer and divides his time between the UK and France.

Editorial Reviews

An urgent, important, almost and essential book... elegantly written, conscientiously argued, provocative, and fiercely committed.

Times Literary Supplement - Richard Davenport-Hines

Dalrymple is a writer of genius: lucid, unsentimental, and profoundly honest.

Arts and Letters - Denis Dutton

I promise you'll enjoy his books.

Daily Telegraph - Daniel Hannan

Striking. Most collections of essays are lackluster affairs, but Dalrymple's is an exception.

The New York Times - Jacob Heilbrunn

These bracing essays horrify, irritate, enlighten, amuse. They also stir you to remember, as Dalrymple puts it, what we have to lose.

New York Sun - Roger Kimball