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The second concert collaboration between the City of London Sinfonia and the London Review of Books, A Form of Exile presents dazzling works of music and literature created at the end of great careers.Join us to discover the connections between them, as traced by Edward Said in his final piece for the LRB, which became his last book.. The …
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T hey came from Florida, from Fox News and Fox Business, square-jawed men and women with big hair and collagen lips.. They came from professional football and World Wrestling Entertainment. They came from daytime talk shows and reality television. They were ‘straight out of central casting’, as the future president said.
Thomas Jones · Short Cuts: Cosy Crime
I n the mid-1980s, before they moved to London and formed Suede, Brett Anderson and Mat Osman were in a band called Geoff. In his memoir, Coal Black Mornings, Anderson describes the ‘small-town wannabes’ rehearsing in his ‘dank, north-facing bedroom’ before going out to play gigs in other people’s bedrooms: Sometimes Mat and I would write stuff at his house.
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One of the only ways for foreign correspondents to get into Mali now is to rely on the services of human smugglers, as I did a few weeks ago. A former journalist turned fixer told me there were ‘no foreign tourists and journalists, no income for us and, with no development aid from France, most social development projects have come to a standstill’.
Podcast: James Meek and Thomas Jones · Endgame in Ukraine
James Meek talks to Tom about his latest report from Ukraine, where he spent time in Kharkiv and Kupiansk in the east of the country. In Kharkiv, he found a population living in fear not only of the Russian glide bombs falling daily on the city, but also of the increasingly ruthless activity of the Ukrainian military recruitment office, desperate to secure fresh troops to resist Russia's advances.
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The London Review of Books is Europe’s leading magazine of culture and ideas.Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of the world’s best writers to explore a wide variety of subjects in exhilarating detail – from art and politics to science and technology via history and philosophy, not to mention fiction and poetry.In the age …
Terry Eagleton · The Excitement of the Stuff: On Fredric Jameson
Oct 10, 2024 · Terry Eagleton has written around fifty books, including, most famously, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), and around eighty LRB pieces. His subjects have included critics (Erich Auerbach, Mikhail Bakhtin, Georg Lukacs, I.A. Richards, Stanley Fish, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak), Richard Dawkins’s The God Delusion and many novels.He taught for many years at Oxford, becoming the Warton ...
Podcast: Jamelle Bouie, Deborah Friedell and Adam Shatz · The …
Adam Shatz is joined by Jamelle Bouie and Deborah Friedell to pick through the results and implications of Trump’s victory. The US has a booming economy of high wages and nearly full employment, yet economic discontent, particularly around inflation, has been one of the more popular explanations for the election result.
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Introducing: ‘The Belgrano Diary’ - London Review of Books
The sinking of the General Belgrano was the bloodiest and most controversial military action of the Falklands War.This is the story of government cover-ups and conspiracies; of whistleblowers, crusading politicians and journalists fighting for the story.