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Feb 5, 2010 · A few days after Ronald Reagan died in 2004, I was hurrying through Newark airport when I spied his smiling countenance on the cover of the Economist, accompanied by a caption in big block letters: THE MAN WHO BEAT COMMUNISM.This preposterous tribute succinctly summarised the conventional wisdom regarding the end of the Cold War. The Good Guys had won, led by the genial but implacable Cold...
Contents · Vol. 46 No. 24 · 26 December 2024
The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham by Lucy Hughes-Hallett. Fourth Estate, 630 pp., £30, October 2024, 978 0 00 812655 1
Fara Dabhoiwala · A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams …
In 1687, Newton’s Principia had put forward a revolutionary new hypothesis that eventually transformed science – a unified theory of motion, and of gravity, the invisible force that governed the universe. His book was written entirely in Latin, the international language of higher learning, and used complicated mathematical formulae that only the most advanced scientists could grasp.
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In last November’s election, a majority of California voters declined to outlaw forced labour among incarcerated people, who make up around 30 per cent of California’s firefighters and are paid between $5.80 and $10.24 per day.
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A court summons arrived in December, alerting me that I had been selected for ‘special jury service’. An accompanying letter explained that the trial would be held at the court for the District of Columbia. It was due to begin on 4 March and was …
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 ...
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Dec 5, 2024 · 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 programme includes Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge – ‘a ...
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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 …