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Certified Boogeyman
Kendrick Lamar, who calls himself a ‘certified boogeyman’, is a contemporary Dracula guy, wending his way onto ...
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Road to Damascus
Part of the reason for Assad’s rapid collapse is that his international backers – Russia, Iran, Hizbullah – ...
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‘How has this year been for you?’
How has this year been for you?’ a musician friend from the West Bank asked me when we met for the first time ...
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Hello Bluesky
As the microblogging site proposing to supplant Twitter, Bluesky at first ignited pundit suspicion, with columnists denouncing echo chambers – as if the first thing you’d do to improve your online ...
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On Lisa Marie Presley
As Elvis’s only child, Lisa Marie Presley was burdened from birth with extraordinary, largely unwanted fame. Before her death in 2023, she spent years as tabloid fodder, less for her sporadic music ...
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Human Conditions: ‘Sister Outsider’ by Audre Lorde
In the final episode of Human Conditions, Brent and Adam turn to Audre Lorde’s Sister Outsider, a collection of prose with exceptional relevance to contemporary grassroots politics. Like Du Bois, ...
London Review of Books13d
'A Far Cry from Kensington' by Muriel Spark
In the final episode of their series, Colin and Clare arrive at Muriel Spark, who would never have considered herself a satirist though her writing was as bitingly satirical as any 20th-century ...
London Review of Books11d
TikTok and Soil
Romania’s Constitutional Court has annulled the first round of the presidential election on 24 November, won by the far-right nationalist candidate Călin Georgescu, with 23 per cent of the vote. The ...
London Review of Books12d
The Mouth of Calamities
In 2004, the political theorist Françoise Vergès decided to go to Martinique to interview Aimé Césaire, the poet, politician, anticolonialist and co-founder of the négritude movement. She was ...