Middleland: Rory Stewart’s essay collection is a ‘triumph’

Middleland: Rory Stewart’s essay collection is a ‘triumph’

In a career of great breadth – from a deputy governor in Iraq to Harvard professor and now successful podcaster – Rory Stewart’s latest book represents “one of his quieter triumphs”, said Patrick Galbraith in Literary Review. But it’s “a triumph nonetheless”. It collects the fortnightly columns he wrote for the Cumberland and Westmorland Herald during his nine years as MP for Penrith and The Border. Despite often being “produced in the dead of n…