After Life Picture storybooks phrases and concepts we might

phrases and concepts we might encounter

and naval expeditions sought fame and fortune in the distant reaches of the South Sea

when terrified parents have a choice to make- send their children alone to England

and Marly needs a job

a Radio 4 Book of the Week

After Life Picture storybooks phrases and concepts we mightLife is one of our most basic concepts, and yet when examined directly it proves remarkably contradictory and elusive, encompassing both the broadest and the most specific phenomena. We can see this uncertainty about life in our habit of approaching it as something at once scientific and mystical, in the return of vitalisms of all types, and in the pervasive politicization of life. In short, life seems everywhere at stake and yet is nowhere the same.