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The Democrats’ Defeat
The Biden presidency was restorationist and Harris promised to continue in that vein. Essentially, they wanted to ...
London Review of Books23h
Thomas Jones: Short Cuts Cosy Crime
Given what it sets out to do, it’s hard to fault The Thursday Murder Club. The sentences flow smoothly, the jokes ...
London Review of Books23h
Michael Wood: At the Movies ‘Anora’
The first hour of Anora, Sean Baker says, belongs to the genre of romantic comedy. This makes interesting sense if ...
London Review of Books23h
Fred Sparks’s Bequest
As peripatetic as he was, Fred Sparks, who was then a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News, didn’t cover the Arab ...
London Review of Books23h
Vadim Nikitin: Chasing the Cybercriminals Chasing the Cybercriminals
It had been twenty years since my last research trip to the British Library when, in November last year, I received an email ...
London Review of Books1d
Building without End
‘Even blindfolded,’ Emanuel Litvinoff wrote of the interwar East End in Journey Through a Small Planet (1972), ‘I’d have known where we were by the smell of the different streets – reek of rotten ...
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Two Days in Pittsburgh
At PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh on 4 November, teams of ushers were handing out signs that said: ‘Trump will fix it.’ They didn’t allow homemade signs because it was a safety risk, they said, though ...
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Questions of Funding
Protecting, preserving and strengthening Jewish life ...
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Canvassing Las Vegas
Our first stop in east Las Vegas was drenched in ersatz gore: fake zombie limbs, scattered femurs, a plastic skull.
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Liberal Values Ahdaf Soueif
On Monday, 28 October, six small book collectives, including the Palestine Festival of Literature (PalFest), published an open letter signed by a thousand writers (I am one of them) pledging to ...
London Review of Books13d
On the Doorstep Jan-Werner Müller
Analogies with 20th-century fascism are not particularly helpful for understanding our times, but one parallel ...
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Early Modern Maths
On budget day, Tom Johnson joins Malin Hay to discuss the revolution in numeracy and use of numbers in Early Modern England, from the black and white squares of the ‘reckoning cloth’ to logarithmic ...