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‘The poetry has a way of lifting its gaze and seeming to dare you to shake your head in disbelief. “You think this is incongruous?” it says. “You think this didn’t happen?”’
Clare Bucknell on Robert Frost: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Clare Bucknell on Robert Frost: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Clare Bucknell · Discord and Fuss: Robert Frost’s Ugly Feelings
Robert Frost’s poetry has a way of lifting its gaze – with a heightening of register, a grand image, a weighty...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 4:36 PM
‘The poetry has a way of lifting its gaze and seeming to dare you to shake your head in disbelief. “You think this is incongruous?” it says. “You think this didn’t happen?”’
Clare Bucknell on Robert Frost: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Clare Bucknell on Robert Frost: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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I have gathered my thoughts and turned it into a fun blog about how IMDb is hell. I hope you like a long, under-explained list of movie ratings. aftermath.site/imdb-review-...
October 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I have gathered my thoughts and turned it into a fun blog about how IMDb is hell. I hope you like a long, under-explained list of movie ratings. aftermath.site/imdb-review-...
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‘This is Mondrian as the dream modernist: decisive, uncompromising, single-minded in his pursuit of a purer and purer abstraction.’
Clare Bucknell on a new biography of the Dutch painter: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Clare Bucknell on a new biography of the Dutch painter: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Clare Bucknell · R-r-r-r-r-uh-h. Huh! Pang: Mondrian goes dancing
Often thoughtless about other people, Mondrian was also thoughtless about – or uninterested in – himself. His ego...
www.lrb.co.uk
May 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
‘This is Mondrian as the dream modernist: decisive, uncompromising, single-minded in his pursuit of a purer and purer abstraction.’
Clare Bucknell on a new biography of the Dutch painter: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Clare Bucknell on a new biography of the Dutch painter: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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I found out today there's something called "real tennis", the tennis of kings, that's different than tennis and only has 45 courts, and the courts are assymetrically shaped and designed with a serving and receiving side.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_te...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_te...
Real tennis - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
February 13, 2025 at 6:42 AM
I found out today there's something called "real tennis", the tennis of kings, that's different than tennis and only has 45 courts, and the courts are assymetrically shaped and designed with a serving and receiving side.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_te...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_te...
'- the Netherlands has emerged as the unwitting “heartland” of panopticon design.'
I shall add this to the list of "Dutch things people can/will/should make fun of"
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
I shall add this to the list of "Dutch things people can/will/should make fun of"
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Escape from the terrordome: how Netherlands panopticon prisons are being reborn as stunning arts hubs
They were built to instil fear. Now these giant domed jails, which date back to the 1700s, are being turned into creative centres – complete with cells for rent and escape rooms
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2025 at 6:08 PM
'- the Netherlands has emerged as the unwitting “heartland” of panopticon design.'
I shall add this to the list of "Dutch things people can/will/should make fun of"
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
I shall add this to the list of "Dutch things people can/will/should make fun of"
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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‘Libertinism, by parading its heterodoxy, its independence of the rules, risks being just a parade: a firework display that fizzles into nothing.’
Clare Bucknell on the Earl of Rochester and the pursuit of pleasure:
Clare Bucknell on the Earl of Rochester and the pursuit of pleasure:
Clare Bucknell · The Readyest Way to Hell: The Exhausting Earl of Rochester
Rochester could ruin anything. ‘Even his most elegant verse often resounds with the crash of breaking glass,’...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 2, 2025 at 6:17 PM
‘Libertinism, by parading its heterodoxy, its independence of the rules, risks being just a parade: a firework display that fizzles into nothing.’
Clare Bucknell on the Earl of Rochester and the pursuit of pleasure:
Clare Bucknell on the Earl of Rochester and the pursuit of pleasure: