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‘Some victims are thought to lie under the concrete pilings of the dams and motorways that changed the Spanish landscape from the late 1950s onwards.’
Stephen Phelan on the ‘disappeared’ of Spain’s civil war.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Stephen Phelan on the ‘disappeared’ of Spain’s civil war.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Stephen Phelan · Diary: Spain’s Disappeared
Emilio Silva set up the Asociación para la Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica to improve and formalise the process...
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November 19, 2025 at 5:50 PM
‘Some victims are thought to lie under the concrete pilings of the dams and motorways that changed the Spanish landscape from the late 1950s onwards.’
Stephen Phelan on the ‘disappeared’ of Spain’s civil war.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Stephen Phelan on the ‘disappeared’ of Spain’s civil war.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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This is (also) what happens when one stops making assumptions about a text and, especially, about who may have written it.
Oh wow! This is what happens when you're photographing MSS & don't capture the text in the inner gutter. 1st, here's the photograph (made about 100 yrs ago) of the Codex Salernitanus, f. 82ra. Although that big tear of the page is obvious, the inner gutter hasn't been fully captured in the photo.
November 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This is (also) what happens when one stops making assumptions about a text and, especially, about who may have written it.
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The latest in the fight between Energy Transfer and Greenpeace: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Greenpeace Faces an Unusual New Legal Attack From a Pipeline Giant
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November 18, 2025 at 8:52 PM
The latest in the fight between Energy Transfer and Greenpeace: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
L'avevo detto che era un gran libro! In Italiano è uscito per @adelphiedizioni.bsky.social. recuperatelo!
Jonathan Cape has ordered reprints for 150,000 copies of David Szalay’s Booker-winning novel, Flesh, The Bookseller understands 👇 #BookSky
Jonathan Cape reprints 150k copies of David Szalay’s Flesh the day after his 2025 Booker Prize victory
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November 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM
L'avevo detto che era un gran libro! In Italiano è uscito per @adelphiedizioni.bsky.social. recuperatelo!
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Jonathan Cape has ordered reprints for 150,000 copies of David Szalay’s Booker-winning novel, Flesh, The Bookseller understands 👇 #BookSky
Jonathan Cape reprints 150k copies of David Szalay’s Flesh the day after his 2025 Booker Prize victory
ebx.sh
November 12, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Jonathan Cape has ordered reprints for 150,000 copies of David Szalay’s Booker-winning novel, Flesh, The Bookseller understands 👇 #BookSky
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‘No measure has succeeded in turning a society in which the rate has fallen below replacement levels into one where it is above 2 again. That has never happened anywhere.’
David Runciman on depopulation, online early from our next issue.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
David Runciman on depopulation, online early from our next issue.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
David Runciman · Are we doomed? The End of the Species
Are we doomed to die out? We find ourselves at the only point in the history of the species when the rate of population...
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November 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
‘No measure has succeeded in turning a society in which the rate has fallen below replacement levels into one where it is above 2 again. That has never happened anywhere.’
David Runciman on depopulation, online early from our next issue.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
David Runciman on depopulation, online early from our next issue.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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‘The Romans had passed down to early medieval Europe the belief that crowds were an important source of validation. Hordes of admirers attested to the holiness of relics. Adoring masses confirmed a ruler’s legitimacy.’
Pablo Scheffer on the power of medieval crowds.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Pablo Scheffer on the power of medieval crowds.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Pablo Scheffer · Among the Rabble: Early Medieval Crowds
Along with their terminology, the Romans had passed down to early medieval Europe the belief that crowds were an...
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November 9, 2025 at 10:30 AM
‘The Romans had passed down to early medieval Europe the belief that crowds were an important source of validation. Hordes of admirers attested to the holiness of relics. Adoring masses confirmed a ruler’s legitimacy.’
Pablo Scheffer on the power of medieval crowds.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Pablo Scheffer on the power of medieval crowds.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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What a piece. One of the best proofs that Cato was right when he said 'Rem tene verba sequentur'.
Also, next time they tell me that AI must be integrated into literally everything, I'll say that this is a "bathetically unscholarly corporate-sponsored piece of risible chaff".
Also, next time they tell me that AI must be integrated into literally everything, I'll say that this is a "bathetically unscholarly corporate-sponsored piece of risible chaff".
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 7:37 PM
What a piece. One of the best proofs that Cato was right when he said 'Rem tene verba sequentur'.
Also, next time they tell me that AI must be integrated into literally everything, I'll say that this is a "bathetically unscholarly corporate-sponsored piece of risible chaff".
Also, next time they tell me that AI must be integrated into literally everything, I'll say that this is a "bathetically unscholarly corporate-sponsored piece of risible chaff".
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On the 50th anniversary of the first broadcast of “Saturday Night Live,” the show celebrated with former cast members Amy Poehler and Tina Fey and a few more surprises. Here’s a recap.
‘S.N.L.’ Trots Out Amy Poehler and Tina Fey for a Senate Judiciary Grilling
Now, it truly has been 50 years since the show’s debut, and that was celebrated with a few more surprises, including cameos by Charli XCX and Seth Meyers.
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October 12, 2025 at 3:35 PM
On the 50th anniversary of the first broadcast of “Saturday Night Live,” the show celebrated with former cast members Amy Poehler and Tina Fey and a few more surprises. Here’s a recap.