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Issue 47.20 is now online, featuring:
James Lasdun on what makes a serial killer
Alexander Clapp on scam gangs
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite on Liverpool
Rosemary Hill on Martin Parr’s photographs
Tony Wood on the Latin American right
and Leo Robson on cinema-going.
Read at www.lrb.co.uk
James Lasdun on what makes a serial killer
Alexander Clapp on scam gangs
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite on Liverpool
Rosemary Hill on Martin Parr’s photographs
Tony Wood on the Latin American right
and Leo Robson on cinema-going.
Read at www.lrb.co.uk
‘For philosophers devoted to the authority of Aristotle but nervous about the clash between his cosmology and the creationism of the Abrahamic faiths, it was reassuring to think that God’s existence could be established either way.’
Peter Adamson on Moses Maimonides.
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Peter Adamson on Moses Maimonides.
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Peter Adamson · Five Hundred Parasangs: Maimonides works it out
God’s existence could be proved, Moses Maimonides thought, regardless of what we conclude about the eternity of the...
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November 11, 2025 at 8:42 AM
‘For philosophers devoted to the authority of Aristotle but nervous about the clash between his cosmology and the creationism of the Abrahamic faiths, it was reassuring to think that God’s existence could be established either way.’
Peter Adamson on Moses Maimonides.
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Peter Adamson on Moses Maimonides.
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‘Writing about the kind of figure who is usually given short shrift in literary fiction, he avoids the obvious showdowns, allowing illness and accident to deepen the characters’ attachments.’
Tim Parks on David Szalay’s novels.
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Tim Parks on David Szalay’s novels.
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Tim Parks · You should get a job: David Szalay’s ‘Flesh’
All of David Szalay’s stories point up the body’s indifference to the plans the will seeks to impose, its capacity...
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November 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
‘Writing about the kind of figure who is usually given short shrift in literary fiction, he avoids the obvious showdowns, allowing illness and accident to deepen the characters’ attachments.’
Tim Parks on David Szalay’s novels.
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Tim Parks on David Szalay’s novels.
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‘What makes “Audition” distinctive is a precision, a sharpness of focus, bare of corroborating detail. It’s hard to exaggerate how unusual this is in modern literature.’
Adam Mars-Jones on Katie Kitamura.
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Adam Mars-Jones on Katie Kitamura.
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Adam Mars-Jones · Transdimensional Cuckoo: On Katie Kitamura and Richard Price
Detail validates a fiction, giving the impression of a world that can be priced and measured, touched and tasted. But...
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November 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
‘What makes “Audition” distinctive is a precision, a sharpness of focus, bare of corroborating detail. It’s hard to exaggerate how unusual this is in modern literature.’
Adam Mars-Jones on Katie Kitamura.
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Adam Mars-Jones on Katie Kitamura.
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‘Even before the age of the internet Sonia realises that any attempt to write “a slender story” on the subject is doomed. This is India, where nothing stays simple. Everything proliferates.’
Adam Mars-Jones reads Kiran Desai’s #BookerPrize2025-shortlisted novel.
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Adam Mars-Jones reads Kiran Desai’s #BookerPrize2025-shortlisted novel.
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Adam Mars-Jones · Kebabs are consequential: On Kiran Desai
Comedy can mean either the active incitement of laughter or a set of literary conventions. If a fair proportion of Kiran...
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November 10, 2025 at 9:28 PM
‘Even before the age of the internet Sonia realises that any attempt to write “a slender story” on the subject is doomed. This is India, where nothing stays simple. Everything proliferates.’
Adam Mars-Jones reads Kiran Desai’s #BookerPrize2025-shortlisted novel.
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Adam Mars-Jones reads Kiran Desai’s #BookerPrize2025-shortlisted novel.
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‘Susan Choi captures so well, even as she pushes the novel to its limits (political documentation vying with fictional fluency), what it’s like to live between two worlds. None of the characters ever quite belongs.’
Blake Morrison reads ‘Flashlight’:
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Blake Morrison reads ‘Flashlight’:
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Blake Morrison · Reflexive Hostility: Susan Choi’s ‘Flashlight’
It can’t have been hard for Susan Choi to hit on the title of her novel, which has been shortlisted for the Booker...
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November 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
‘Susan Choi captures so well, even as she pushes the novel to its limits (political documentation vying with fictional fluency), what it’s like to live between two worlds. None of the characters ever quite belongs.’
Blake Morrison reads ‘Flashlight’:
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#BookerPrize2025
Blake Morrison reads ‘Flashlight’:
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#BookerPrize2025
‘But, Amadou said, while younger generations might feel antipathy towards France’s continued neocolonial involvement in Niger, they were increasingly ignorant of the violent origins of that relationship.’
Rob Lemkin on what France owes to Niger.
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Rob Lemkin on what France owes to Niger.
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Rob Lemkin | What France owes to Niger
About ten years ago I visited Dioundiou, a village in Niger two hundred kilometres south-east of the capital Niamey, and...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
‘But, Amadou said, while younger generations might feel antipathy towards France’s continued neocolonial involvement in Niger, they were increasingly ignorant of the violent origins of that relationship.’
Rob Lemkin on what France owes to Niger.
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Rob Lemkin on what France owes to Niger.
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‘Whatever funding proposals are made, the BBC will still need to confront the post-truth world, either embracing it by going tribal or trying to make due impartiality look relevant.’
Owen Bennett-Jones on the state of the BBC, from 2018.
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Owen Bennett-Jones on the state of the BBC, from 2018.
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Owen Bennett-Jones · Can’t Afford to Tell the Truth: Trouble at the BBC
BBC managers have become a national joke. The problem is structural. Many start out as capable and engaged producers but...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
‘Whatever funding proposals are made, the BBC will still need to confront the post-truth world, either embracing it by going tribal or trying to make due impartiality look relevant.’
Owen Bennett-Jones on the state of the BBC, from 2018.
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Owen Bennett-Jones on the state of the BBC, from 2018.
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‘We find ourselves at the only point in the history of the species when the rate of population growth has dramatically slowed and is about to go into reverse.’
Are we doomed? David Runciman on depopulation, online early from our next issue.
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Are we doomed? David Runciman on depopulation, online early from our next issue.
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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 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
‘We find ourselves at the only point in the history of the species when the rate of population growth has dramatically slowed and is about to go into reverse.’
Are we doomed? David Runciman on depopulation, online early from our next issue.
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Are we doomed? David Runciman on depopulation, online early from our next issue.
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‘What keeps us in manipulative romances? It isn’t only the saviour complex, or the erotic rollercoaster, or even the false belief that “love is pain.” It’s also the feeling that we, too, need to be saved.’
Stephanie Burt (@notquitehydepark.bsky.social) on King Princess
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Stephanie Burt (@notquitehydepark.bsky.social) on King Princess
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Stephanie Burt | On King Princess
Girl Violence, the third album by King Princess, is my favourite pop record in a good year for pop. It’s all over the...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
‘What keeps us in manipulative romances? It isn’t only the saviour complex, or the erotic rollercoaster, or even the false belief that “love is pain.” It’s also the feeling that we, too, need to be saved.’
Stephanie Burt (@notquitehydepark.bsky.social) on King Princess
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Stephanie Burt (@notquitehydepark.bsky.social) on King Princess
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‘I wrote a fan letter to David Thomson. In his reply, he urged me to develop interests other than film. That was Spielberg’s problem, Thomson said – he didn’t know anything else. But there seemed little danger of that in my case.’
Leo Robson’s teenage film obsession:
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Leo Robson’s teenage film obsession:
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Leo Robson · Diary: What I Saw at the Movies
Jean Epstein compared going to a movie to entering a state of hypnosis, an aesthetic experience that ‘modifies the...
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November 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
‘I wrote a fan letter to David Thomson. In his reply, he urged me to develop interests other than film. That was Spielberg’s problem, Thomson said – he didn’t know anything else. But there seemed little danger of that in my case.’
Leo Robson’s teenage film obsession:
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Leo Robson’s teenage film obsession:
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‘An executive decided the extra liability for running the Idaho plant filterless would be worth it: “200 children” at “$5 to 10,000 [per] kid” was a small price compared to the money to be made from uninterrupted smelting.’
James Lasdun on pollution and murder.
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James Lasdun on pollution and murder.
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James Lasdun · American Berserk: Serial Killers in Seattle
For a period beginning in the 1960s and ending around the turn of this century, the preferred form of the homicidally...
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November 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
‘An executive decided the extra liability for running the Idaho plant filterless would be worth it: “200 children” at “$5 to 10,000 [per] kid” was a small price compared to the money to be made from uninterrupted smelting.’
James Lasdun on pollution and murder.
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James Lasdun on pollution and murder.
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‘Mamdani is a politician, not an artist. Who knows what will happen from here on out, but his speech, with its denunciation of corruption and calls for inclusion, sounded something like a ballad of political integrity.’
Niela Orr on Mamdani’s victory, from the blog.
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Niela Orr on Mamdani’s victory, from the blog.
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Niela Orr | Mamdani at the Crossroads
The percolating instrumentation of ‘New York’, Ja Rule’s piercing 2004 posse cut, was playing on my TV, and Zohran...
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November 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
‘Mamdani is a politician, not an artist. Who knows what will happen from here on out, but his speech, with its denunciation of corruption and calls for inclusion, sounded something like a ballad of political integrity.’
Niela Orr on Mamdani’s victory, from the blog.
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Niela Orr on Mamdani’s victory, from the blog.
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‘A modest rationalism was a natural response in the face of criticism aimed at the pretensions of Aristotelian science. Religious philosophers insisted on the limits of reason while demanding that it stay in its proper lane.’
@histphilosophy.bsky.social on Maimonides.
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@histphilosophy.bsky.social on Maimonides.
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Peter Adamson · Five Hundred Parasangs: Maimonides works it out
God’s existence could be proved, Moses Maimonides thought, regardless of what we conclude about the eternity of the...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
‘A modest rationalism was a natural response in the face of criticism aimed at the pretensions of Aristotelian science. Religious philosophers insisted on the limits of reason while demanding that it stay in its proper lane.’
@histphilosophy.bsky.social on Maimonides.
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@histphilosophy.bsky.social on Maimonides.
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‘Scamming is no less grotesque an example of globalisation than the seafood slave industry operating out of Thailand or the cargo-ship dismantling business devastating the shores of Bangladesh.’
@alexclapp.bsky.social on cyber-slavery and the scam industry.
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@alexclapp.bsky.social on cyber-slavery and the scam industry.
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Alexander Clapp · Pig Butchering: Scam Gangs
If it were a national economy, cybercrime would be the third largest in the world, behind only the United States and...
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November 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
‘Scamming is no less grotesque an example of globalisation than the seafood slave industry operating out of Thailand or the cargo-ship dismantling business devastating the shores of Bangladesh.’
@alexclapp.bsky.social on cyber-slavery and the scam industry.
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@alexclapp.bsky.social on cyber-slavery and the scam industry.
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‘It is on the border between the ordinary and the peculiar that Martin Parr likes to work. He points out, more than once, that what is commonplace now will one day be remarkable.’
Rosemary Hill reviews Parr’s memoir ‘Utterly Lazy and Inattentive’.
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Rosemary Hill reviews Parr’s memoir ‘Utterly Lazy and Inattentive’.
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Rosemary Hill · Saturdays at the Sewage Works: Martin Parr’s People
It is on the border between the ordinary and the peculiar that Parr likes to work. He points out, more than once, that...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
‘It is on the border between the ordinary and the peculiar that Martin Parr likes to work. He points out, more than once, that what is commonplace now will one day be remarkable.’
Rosemary Hill reviews Parr’s memoir ‘Utterly Lazy and Inattentive’.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Rosemary Hill reviews Parr’s memoir ‘Utterly Lazy and Inattentive’.
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‘The break with democratic rule opened space for far-right ideas to gain ground, not just the hysterical anti-communism of the Argentinian generals but also the authoritarian neoliberalism of the “Chicago Boys” in Chile.’
Tony Wood on the Latin American far right.
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Tony Wood on the Latin American far right.
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Tony Wood · Sell Your Children: Latin America Shifts Right
It’s striking how thoroughly Latin America’s contemporary right has absorbed neoliberalism. Earlier cohorts...
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November 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
‘The break with democratic rule opened space for far-right ideas to gain ground, not just the hysterical anti-communism of the Argentinian generals but also the authoritarian neoliberalism of the “Chicago Boys” in Chile.’
Tony Wood on the Latin American far right.
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Tony Wood on the Latin American far right.
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On reform of the BBC as an institution and a source of journalism, this 2018 piece by the excellent Owen Bennett-Jones still takes some beating: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Owen Bennett-Jones · Can’t Afford to Tell the Truth: Trouble at the BBC
BBC managers have become a national joke. The problem is structural. Many start out as capable and engaged producers but...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM
On reform of the BBC as an institution and a source of journalism, this 2018 piece by the excellent Owen Bennett-Jones still takes some beating: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘There is a disconcerting sense that something much more serious is going on, that all the hokum and stage magic might be misdirection of the sort that enables something secret to enter the room.’
Francis Gooding on Dr John’s ‘very strange record’ ‘Gris-Gris’.
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Francis Gooding on Dr John’s ‘very strange record’ ‘Gris-Gris’.
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Francis Gooding · Hoodoo Man: Dr John and ‘Gris-Gris’
Beyond or beneath the theatrics there is a disconcerting sense that something much more serious is going on, that all...
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November 10, 2025 at 12:42 PM
‘There is a disconcerting sense that something much more serious is going on, that all the hokum and stage magic might be misdirection of the sort that enables something secret to enter the room.’
Francis Gooding on Dr John’s ‘very strange record’ ‘Gris-Gris’.
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Francis Gooding on Dr John’s ‘very strange record’ ‘Gris-Gris’.
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‘There were serial killers before that; there have been serial killers since then. But this was unlike any other period in terms of the numbers involved.’
On the podcast, James Lasdun explores Caroline Fraser’s thesis linking industrial waste with serial killers.
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On the podcast, James Lasdun explores Caroline Fraser’s thesis linking industrial waste with serial killers.
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Pollution and Other Serial Killers
Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 05/11/2025 · 38m
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November 10, 2025 at 12:10 PM
‘There were serial killers before that; there have been serial killers since then. But this was unlike any other period in terms of the numbers involved.’
On the podcast, James Lasdun explores Caroline Fraser’s thesis linking industrial waste with serial killers.
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On the podcast, James Lasdun explores Caroline Fraser’s thesis linking industrial waste with serial killers.
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‘For every genuine relic-bearing cleric, there was a peddler of fake goods. What were authorities to do in cases where crowds seemed to legitimise miscreants?’
Pablo Scheffer on the early medieval crowd regime.
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Pablo Scheffer on the early medieval crowd regime.
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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 10, 2025 at 11:28 AM
‘For every genuine relic-bearing cleric, there was a peddler of fake goods. What were authorities to do in cases where crowds seemed to legitimise miscreants?’
Pablo Scheffer on the early medieval crowd regime.
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Pablo Scheffer on the early medieval crowd regime.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘At the same time that governments were legislating against racism in Britain, they were making it harder for people of colour to come and live here.’
Colin Douglas on sixty years of the Race Relations Act, from the blog.
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Colin Douglas on sixty years of the Race Relations Act, from the blog.
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Colin Douglas | Sixty Not Out
The Race Relations Act was introduced on 8 November 1965, part of a wave of liberal social reforms of the 1960s. It was...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:42 AM
‘At the same time that governments were legislating against racism in Britain, they were making it harder for people of colour to come and live here.’
Colin Douglas on sixty years of the Race Relations Act, from the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Colin Douglas on sixty years of the Race Relations Act, from the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
‘In the 1520s, when More was writing, Lutheranism looked to him as frightening as any extremist political ideology might appear to us today.’
Lucy Wooding on the many faces of Thomas More.
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Lucy Wooding on the many faces of Thomas More.
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Lucy Wooding · Damnable Rottenness: More and More
Saint or sinner, scholar or polemicist, philosopher or politician – no single vision of Thomas More has ever commanded...
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November 10, 2025 at 9:27 AM
‘In the 1520s, when More was writing, Lutheranism looked to him as frightening as any extremist political ideology might appear to us today.’
Lucy Wooding on the many faces of Thomas More.
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Lucy Wooding on the many faces of Thomas More.
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‘In 1991, the ice-preserved remains of a man who died around 3250 BCE surfaced in the Ötztal Alps. There were sixty tattoos – mostly dots and small crosses – on his lower spine, right knee and ankle joints, as though to alleviate pain.’
Em Hogan on tattooing:
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Em Hogan on tattooing:
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Em Hogan · An Anchor and a Cross: Tattoo Me
The notion of the tattoo as something concealed – waiting to be uncovered – lends it an erotic quality. The...
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November 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
‘In 1991, the ice-preserved remains of a man who died around 3250 BCE surfaced in the Ötztal Alps. There were sixty tattoos – mostly dots and small crosses – on his lower spine, right knee and ankle joints, as though to alleviate pain.’
Em Hogan on tattooing:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Em Hogan on tattooing:
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‘Freud knew that the family was the ultimate ghost story, a tendency reflected in the narratives that have become attached to ghost sightings, which often concern disputed inheritances, dynastic continuity or betrayed love.’
Jon Day on the unheimlich
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Jon Day on the unheimlich
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Jon Day · Gloomth: Haunted Houses
Haunted house stories tend to end in one of two ways: either the family flees, or the ghosts are soothed, and everyone...
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November 9, 2025 at 7:10 PM
‘Freud knew that the family was the ultimate ghost story, a tendency reflected in the narratives that have become attached to ghost sightings, which often concern disputed inheritances, dynastic continuity or betrayed love.’
Jon Day on the unheimlich
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Jon Day on the unheimlich
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That was
The beginning of my obsession with garnets.
When I held them to the light
Their wine just changed.
I bought string after string, but the closest
I got was a hundred-year-old necklace
From the Netherlands.
‘Garnets’, a poem by @tricialockwood.bsky.social
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The beginning of my obsession with garnets.
When I held them to the light
Their wine just changed.
I bought string after string, but the closest
I got was a hundred-year-old necklace
From the Netherlands.
‘Garnets’, a poem by @tricialockwood.bsky.social
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Patricia Lockwood · Poem: ‘Garnets’
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November 9, 2025 at 5:50 PM
That was
The beginning of my obsession with garnets.
When I held them to the light
Their wine just changed.
I bought string after string, but the closest
I got was a hundred-year-old necklace
From the Netherlands.
‘Garnets’, a poem by @tricialockwood.bsky.social
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
The beginning of my obsession with garnets.
When I held them to the light
Their wine just changed.
I bought string after string, but the closest
I got was a hundred-year-old necklace
From the Netherlands.
‘Garnets’, a poem by @tricialockwood.bsky.social
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...