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Issue 48.02 is now online, featuring:
@adamshatz.bsky.social on visions of America
@eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social on Iran
Daisy Hay on Charles Fox and Edmund Burke
Rosemary Hill on Jessica Mitford
@alexclapp.bsky.social in the Amazon
and Jonathan Rée on Alexandre Kojève.
Read online at www.lrb.co.uk
@adamshatz.bsky.social on visions of America
@eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social on Iran
Daisy Hay on Charles Fox and Edmund Burke
Rosemary Hill on Jessica Mitford
@alexclapp.bsky.social in the Amazon
and Jonathan Rée on Alexandre Kojève.
Read online at www.lrb.co.uk
‘Tied either to the fishing boat or the writing desk, Peter Matthiessen was insufficiently domestic, always home too late or to bed too early.’
@xlo.bsky.social on the writer, 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘴 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 co-founder and sometime CIA agent.
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@xlo.bsky.social on the writer, 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘴 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 co-founder and sometime CIA agent.
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Christian Lorentzen · I’m always in the club: Peter Matthiessen in Paris
Over the years Matthiessen, Harold ‘Doc’ Humes and George Plimpton would vie for credit as to who ‘invented’ the...
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February 9, 2026 at 8:30 PM
‘Tied either to the fishing boat or the writing desk, Peter Matthiessen was insufficiently domestic, always home too late or to bed too early.’
@xlo.bsky.social on the writer, 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘴 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 co-founder and sometime CIA agent.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@xlo.bsky.social on the writer, 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘴 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 co-founder and sometime CIA agent.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘The regime, worn down by prolonged economic warfare and austerity, has increasingly come to frame its role within the Axis of Resistance in nationalist rather than revolutionary terms.’
@eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social on Iran’s foreign policy.
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@eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social on Iran’s foreign policy.
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Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi · Made in Tehran: Iran’s Crises
Years of austerity alongside the rise of an increasingly kleptocratic and predatory elite have steadily eroded the state...
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February 9, 2026 at 7:20 PM
‘The regime, worn down by prolonged economic warfare and austerity, has increasingly come to frame its role within the Axis of Resistance in nationalist rather than revolutionary terms.’
@eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social on Iran’s foreign policy.
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@eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social on Iran’s foreign policy.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘The Acropolis Museum in Athens may be the most useful comparison here. Like the Grand Egyptian Museum, it is designed to overlook an important archaeological site and to focus minds on Greece’s struggle to reclaim its antiquities.’
Neal Spencer in Giza.
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Neal Spencer in Giza.
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Neal Spencer · At the Grand Egyptian Museum: New Pharaonism
The absence of critical or fresh perspectives on Egyptology and its history, or any of the decolonial approaches that...
www.lrb.co.uk
February 9, 2026 at 6:30 PM
‘The Acropolis Museum in Athens may be the most useful comparison here. Like the Grand Egyptian Museum, it is designed to overlook an important archaeological site and to focus minds on Greece’s struggle to reclaim its antiquities.’
Neal Spencer in Giza.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Neal Spencer in Giza.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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The full transcript of Adam Shatz’s LRB winter lecture is lengthy, knotty & worth every second. What America means, in theory & in practice - & specifically what it means now www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Shatz · Another Country: Visions of America
Is America a dream or a nightmare, a democratic paradise or a bastion of white supremacy and religious intolerance? Is...
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February 7, 2026 at 8:49 AM
The full transcript of Adam Shatz’s LRB winter lecture is lengthy, knotty & worth every second. What America means, in theory & in practice - & specifically what it means now www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘So it seems we have arrived at an either/or: good poems or pluralism.’
Seamus Perry’s Winter Lecture ‘Pluralism and the Modern Poet’, published in the next issue and online now.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Seamus Perry’s Winter Lecture ‘Pluralism and the Modern Poet’, published in the next issue and online now.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Seamus Perry · Pluralism and the Modern Poet: Pluralism and Poetry
‘Art arises,’ Auden writes, ‘out of our desire for both beauty and truth and our knowledge that they are not...
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February 9, 2026 at 5:50 PM
‘So it seems we have arrived at an either/or: good poems or pluralism.’
Seamus Perry’s Winter Lecture ‘Pluralism and the Modern Poet’, published in the next issue and online now.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Seamus Perry’s Winter Lecture ‘Pluralism and the Modern Poet’, published in the next issue and online now.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘A friend in London talks about the mystifying phrase she keeps hearing these days: “This is not America, this is not who we are.” But this is America, this is life, and this is how human beings behave. American exceptionalism will not save us.’
Yiyun Li on the blog.
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Yiyun Li on the blog.
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Yiyun Li | To Remember in America
When I was at nursery school in Beijing in the 1970s, there was a teacher who seemed to find tireless pleasure in...
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February 9, 2026 at 5:10 PM
‘A friend in London talks about the mystifying phrase she keeps hearing these days: “This is not America, this is not who we are.” But this is America, this is life, and this is how human beings behave. American exceptionalism will not save us.’
Yiyun Li on the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
Yiyun Li on the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
‘An Indigenous campaigner against illegal fishing was recently approached by two men who invoked the killings of Phillips and Pereira: “Wise up or the same thing will happen to you.”’
@alexclapp.bsky.social on the journalist Dom Phillips’s investigations in the Amazon.
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@alexclapp.bsky.social on the journalist Dom Phillips’s investigations in the Amazon.
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Alexander Clapp · Diary: In the Amazon
As the journalist Dom Phillips came to see it, the deforestation of the Amazon was the work of a stupendously profitable...
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February 9, 2026 at 4:30 PM
‘An Indigenous campaigner against illegal fishing was recently approached by two men who invoked the killings of Phillips and Pereira: “Wise up or the same thing will happen to you.”’
@alexclapp.bsky.social on the journalist Dom Phillips’s investigations in the Amazon.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@alexclapp.bsky.social on the journalist Dom Phillips’s investigations in the Amazon.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘Why don’t you go in?’ someone said, and this was where cheerful prospects were offered. And this helped too – that the room had a floor space of at least seven hundred square feet and was lit from the east.
‘For Those Who Have Been Charmed’, a story by Diane Williams.
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‘For Those Who Have Been Charmed’, a story by Diane Williams.
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Diane Williams · Story: ‘For Those Who Have Been Charmed’
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February 9, 2026 at 3:47 PM
‘Why don’t you go in?’ someone said, and this was where cheerful prospects were offered. And this helped too – that the room had a floor space of at least seven hundred square feet and was lit from the east.
‘For Those Who Have Been Charmed’, a story by Diane Williams.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘For Those Who Have Been Charmed’, a story by Diane Williams.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Reposted by London Review of Books
One of those long-form reviews that singlehandedly justifies the annual subscription cost of the magazine that published it, grazie www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Hal Foster · Zip it: Barnett Newman’s Anarchism
For Barnett Newman, what was required was a new kind of painting produced ‘as if painting never existed before’, a...
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February 7, 2026 at 3:44 PM
One of those long-form reviews that singlehandedly justifies the annual subscription cost of the magazine that published it, grazie www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘Alexandre Kojève was never reticent about calling himself “a genius” – “I say it because it’s true” – and he took pride in a youthful “philosophical diary” in which, it seems, he wrote about leaving moribund Western traditions behind.’
Jonathan Rée on the philosopher.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jonathan Rée on the philosopher.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jonathan Rée · We are all layabouts now: Kojève v. Hegel
Alexandre Kojève described his book on Hegel as ‘very bad’, and he had a point. His take on The Phenomenology of...
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February 9, 2026 at 2:15 PM
‘Alexandre Kojève was never reticent about calling himself “a genius” – “I say it because it’s true” – and he took pride in a youthful “philosophical diary” in which, it seems, he wrote about leaving moribund Western traditions behind.’
Jonathan Rée on the philosopher.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jonathan Rée on the philosopher.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘As the Swedish diplomatic historian Anders Stephanson writes, “the alarming fact” is that “everyone on this earth has an enormous stake in how the United States chooses to be and act in this world.” Not just enormous, but existential.’
Adam Shatz’s Winter Lecture:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Shatz’s Winter Lecture:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Shatz · Another Country: Visions of America
Is America a dream or a nightmare, a democratic paradise or a bastion of white supremacy and religious intolerance? Is...
www.lrb.co.uk
February 9, 2026 at 1:30 PM
‘As the Swedish diplomatic historian Anders Stephanson writes, “the alarming fact” is that “everyone on this earth has an enormous stake in how the United States chooses to be and act in this world.” Not just enormous, but existential.’
Adam Shatz’s Winter Lecture:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Shatz’s Winter Lecture:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘From a European perspective, this is a story of explosive celebrity and subsequent disappearance. Baya’s gouaches and sculptures were exhibited in Paris when she was sixteen. She modelled in clay alongside Picasso.’
Susannah Clapp on the mid-century Algerian artist.
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Susannah Clapp on the mid-century Algerian artist.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Susannah Clapp · On Baya
The artistic gift of Fatima Haddad – who chose to be known as Baya – was quickly celebrated. But celebration was...
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February 9, 2026 at 12:50 PM
‘From a European perspective, this is a story of explosive celebrity and subsequent disappearance. Baya’s gouaches and sculptures were exhibited in Paris when she was sixteen. She modelled in clay alongside Picasso.’
Susannah Clapp on the mid-century Algerian artist.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Susannah Clapp on the mid-century Algerian artist.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘The two novels are studies in language: the depersonalised jargon of social science and the incantatory vernacular of a medieval burg. One is anti-lyric and the other ultra-lyrical.’
Ange Mlinko on the Danish novelist Olga Ravn.
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Ange Mlinko on the Danish novelist Olga Ravn.
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Ange Mlinko · Holding the Skin Girdle: On Olga Ravn
The Danish writer Olga Ravn has recently published two short novels, one set in the future and one in the past. Both...
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February 9, 2026 at 12:10 PM
‘The two novels are studies in language: the depersonalised jargon of social science and the incantatory vernacular of a medieval burg. One is anti-lyric and the other ultra-lyrical.’
Ange Mlinko on the Danish novelist Olga Ravn.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Ange Mlinko on the Danish novelist Olga Ravn.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘Peter Mandelson is a case study for the way the Westminster ecosystem protects its own.
Protecting the system, and the powerful men who feel entitled to benefit from it, matters more than protecting the people it harms.’
@judeinlondon.com on the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
Protecting the system, and the powerful men who feel entitled to benefit from it, matters more than protecting the people it harms.’
@judeinlondon.com on the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
Jude Wanga | The centre shrinks
Peter Mandelson is a case study for the way the Westminster ecosystem protects its own until it is forced, by leakage...
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February 9, 2026 at 11:25 AM
‘Peter Mandelson is a case study for the way the Westminster ecosystem protects its own.
Protecting the system, and the powerful men who feel entitled to benefit from it, matters more than protecting the people it harms.’
@judeinlondon.com on the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
Protecting the system, and the powerful men who feel entitled to benefit from it, matters more than protecting the people it harms.’
@judeinlondon.com on the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
‘Much has been made in the press of Takaichi’s colourful past. She used to ride motorbikes and play drums in a heavy metal band; photographs of her at the drum kit alongside the South Korean president recently went viral.’
Christopher Harding on the Japanese elections.
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Christopher Harding on the Japanese elections.
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Christopher Harding · Short Cuts: Japan at the Polls
Assuming she remains prime minister after this month’s election, Takaichi Sanae will focus on the immediate economic...
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February 9, 2026 at 10:20 AM
‘Much has been made in the press of Takaichi’s colourful past. She used to ride motorbikes and play drums in a heavy metal band; photographs of her at the drum kit alongside the South Korean president recently went viral.’
Christopher Harding on the Japanese elections.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Christopher Harding on the Japanese elections.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Worry came first,
as in fidgeting,
re-ordering,
(secretly chewing
on pencil wood
or hair.)
A poem by Rae Armantrout.
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as in fidgeting,
re-ordering,
(secretly chewing
on pencil wood
or hair.)
A poem by Rae Armantrout.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Rae Armantrout · Poem: ‘Nursery Song’
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February 9, 2026 at 9:15 AM
Worry came first,
as in fidgeting,
re-ordering,
(secretly chewing
on pencil wood
or hair.)
A poem by Rae Armantrout.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
as in fidgeting,
re-ordering,
(secretly chewing
on pencil wood
or hair.)
A poem by Rae Armantrout.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
On our Close Readings subscription podcast: Meehan Crist and @petergs.bsky.social explore Zoe Schlanger’s account of new research into plant behaviour, examining the case for plant agency, for their series ‘Nature in Crisis’.
Listen to an extract:
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Listen to an extract:
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Nature in Crisis: ‘The Light Eaters’ by Zoë Schlanger
Podcast Episode · Close Readings · 09/02/2026 · 59m
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February 9, 2026 at 8:37 AM
On our Close Readings subscription podcast: Meehan Crist and @petergs.bsky.social explore Zoe Schlanger’s account of new research into plant behaviour, examining the case for plant agency, for their series ‘Nature in Crisis’.
Listen to an extract:
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...
Listen to an extract:
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...
‘Burke and Fox did not concern themselves solely with royal and parliamentary intrigue. At home there were families to be supported and women to be won.’
Daisy Hay on the friendship between Edmund Burke and Charles Fox.
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Daisy Hay on the friendship between Edmund Burke and Charles Fox.
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Daisy Hay · No King: Burke and Fox break up
Edmund Burke and Charles Fox’s relationship could not withstand the ideological chasm that emerged between them after...
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February 8, 2026 at 8:30 PM
‘Burke and Fox did not concern themselves solely with royal and parliamentary intrigue. At home there were families to be supported and women to be won.’
Daisy Hay on the friendship between Edmund Burke and Charles Fox.
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Daisy Hay on the friendship between Edmund Burke and Charles Fox.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘Barnett Newman’s foundational idea about art – that “artists are the first men,” that each painting re-enacts the creation of the world – is an absolute claim on firstness. It is also as American as apple pie or Emerson.’
Hal Foster on the Abstract Expressionist.
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Hal Foster on the Abstract Expressionist.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Hal Foster · Zip it: Barnett Newman’s Anarchism
For Barnett Newman, what was required was a new kind of painting produced ‘as if painting never existed before’, a...
www.lrb.co.uk
February 8, 2026 at 7:20 PM
‘Barnett Newman’s foundational idea about art – that “artists are the first men,” that each painting re-enacts the creation of the world – is an absolute claim on firstness. It is also as American as apple pie or Emerson.’
Hal Foster on the Abstract Expressionist.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Hal Foster on the Abstract Expressionist.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘During Spain’s literary Siglo de Oro, or Golden Age, El Cid goes burlesque – part saint, part clown – in plays performed to large audiences of all social classes; at least 22 survive from the period.’
@annadella.bsky.social on the medieval mercenary.
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@annadella.bsky.social on the medieval mercenary.
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Anna Della Subin · Gallop, Gallop: Right and Left Cids
Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, better known as El Cid, cultivated his own personal army, made up of both Christians and Muslims...
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February 8, 2026 at 6:24 PM
‘During Spain’s literary Siglo de Oro, or Golden Age, El Cid goes burlesque – part saint, part clown – in plays performed to large audiences of all social classes; at least 22 survive from the period.’
@annadella.bsky.social on the medieval mercenary.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@annadella.bsky.social on the medieval mercenary.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘A life gets its shape not only through memory and expectation but through the strong and enduring attachments that are its most important content.’
Thomas Nagel on how we understand our lives within temporality.
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Thomas Nagel on how we understand our lives within temporality.
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Thomas Nagel · Now and Then: Living in Time
Our lives don’t just play out over time: we lead them over the course of that time, shaping them as an extended whole...
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February 8, 2026 at 5:50 PM
‘A life gets its shape not only through memory and expectation but through the strong and enduring attachments that are its most important content.’
Thomas Nagel on how we understand our lives within temporality.
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Thomas Nagel on how we understand our lives within temporality.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
On Wednesday 18 February, journalist, novelist and 𝘓𝘙𝘉 contributing editor @jamesmeek.bsky.social will be at the @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk to discuss his latest novel, 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘔𝘦, with Lara Pawson.
Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/james-meek...
Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/james-meek...
James Meek & Lara Pawson: Your Life Without Me
James Meek & Lara Pawson: Your Life Without Me
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February 8, 2026 at 5:10 PM
On Wednesday 18 February, journalist, novelist and 𝘓𝘙𝘉 contributing editor @jamesmeek.bsky.social will be at the @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk to discuss his latest novel, 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘔𝘦, with Lara Pawson.
Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/james-meek...
Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/james-meek...
‘The physical separation of the museum from Cairo is a little like that of the Getty Museum from Los Angeles, but here it is not merely a matter of space or vistas. The regime is keen to keep international visitors away.’
Neal Spencer at the Grand Egyptian Museum.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Neal Spencer at the Grand Egyptian Museum.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Neal Spencer · At the Grand Egyptian Museum: New Pharaonism
The absence of critical or fresh perspectives on Egyptology and its history, or any of the decolonial approaches that...
www.lrb.co.uk
February 8, 2026 at 4:30 PM
‘The physical separation of the museum from Cairo is a little like that of the Getty Museum from Los Angeles, but here it is not merely a matter of space or vistas. The regime is keen to keep international visitors away.’
Neal Spencer at the Grand Egyptian Museum.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Neal Spencer at the Grand Egyptian Museum.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘In a reckless race along the diminishing-returns curve, whatever fuel is immediately available will tend to get used. In the US, that still mostly means natural gas; in China, it’s coal.’
Donald MacKenzie on the AI-driven logarithmic growth in data centres.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Donald MacKenzie on the AI-driven logarithmic growth in data centres.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Donald MacKenzie · AI’s Scale
AI’s scale doesn’t matter just to specialists. The rest of us are being taken on a ride along the logarithmic curve...
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February 8, 2026 at 3:45 PM
‘In a reckless race along the diminishing-returns curve, whatever fuel is immediately available will tend to get used. In the US, that still mostly means natural gas; in China, it’s coal.’
Donald MacKenzie on the AI-driven logarithmic growth in data centres.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Donald MacKenzie on the AI-driven logarithmic growth in data centres.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘Peter Matthiesen was thrown out of the family home on account of his “insolence, absenteeism, excessive use of stimulants, speeding tickets and chronic disruption of the social order”.’
@xlo.bsky.social on the journalist, novelist and sometime CIA agent.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@xlo.bsky.social on the journalist, novelist and sometime CIA agent.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Christian Lorentzen · I’m always in the club: Peter Matthiessen in Paris
Over the years Matthiessen, Harold ‘Doc’ Humes and George Plimpton would vie for credit as to who ‘invented’ the...
www.lrb.co.uk
February 8, 2026 at 3:00 PM
‘Peter Matthiesen was thrown out of the family home on account of his “insolence, absenteeism, excessive use of stimulants, speeding tickets and chronic disruption of the social order”.’
@xlo.bsky.social on the journalist, novelist and sometime CIA agent.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@xlo.bsky.social on the journalist, novelist and sometime CIA agent.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...