Dan Hitchens

Sometimes it’s good to worry

Francis O’Gorman’s Worrying: A Literary and Cultural Guide finds not much hope for the human race — but at least worriers, being sensitive to others, apparently make good team mates

issue 25 July 2015

  • Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History

    Francis O’Gorman

    Bloomsbury, pp. 192

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