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Issue 47.23/24 is online now, featuring:
Amia Srinivasan’s LRB Winter Lecture on psychoanalysis and politics
John Lanchester on AI
@kitchenbee.bsky.social on Judy Garland
Andrew O’Hagan on Walter Lippmann
Jacqueline Rose on Netanyahu
and T.J. Clark on a kouros at the Met.
Read now at www.lrb.co.uk
Amia Srinivasan’s LRB Winter Lecture on psychoanalysis and politics
John Lanchester on AI
@kitchenbee.bsky.social on Judy Garland
Andrew O’Hagan on Walter Lippmann
Jacqueline Rose on Netanyahu
and T.J. Clark on a kouros at the Met.
Read now at www.lrb.co.uk
‘What must it have been like to live cheek by jowl with the man you’d cuckolded?’
Clare Bucknell visits the house where Byron lived with his mistress Teresa Guiccioli and her husband (plus a ‘veritable zoo’ of Byron’s animals).
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Clare Bucknell visits the house where Byron lived with his mistress Teresa Guiccioli and her husband (plus a ‘veritable zoo’ of Byron’s animals).
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Clare Bucknell · At the Museo Byron: Byron and Teresa
What must it have been like to live cheek by jowl with the man you’d cuckolded? In the early 19th century, for a woman...
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January 10, 2026 at 8:30 PM
‘What must it have been like to live cheek by jowl with the man you’d cuckolded?’
Clare Bucknell visits the house where Byron lived with his mistress Teresa Guiccioli and her husband (plus a ‘veritable zoo’ of Byron’s animals).
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Clare Bucknell visits the house where Byron lived with his mistress Teresa Guiccioli and her husband (plus a ‘veritable zoo’ of Byron’s animals).
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the more I read the less hope I have the more I think the
sadder I get
everything turns into a proof or an argument or a flail
maybe it’s my
so-called academic training all those gentlemen with
lexicons open
‘Lieu Vague’, a poem by Anne Carson:
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sadder I get
everything turns into a proof or an argument or a flail
maybe it’s my
so-called academic training all those gentlemen with
lexicons open
‘Lieu Vague’, a poem by Anne Carson:
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Anne Carson · Poem: ‘Lieu Vague’
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January 10, 2026 at 7:02 PM
the more I read the less hope I have the more I think the
sadder I get
everything turns into a proof or an argument or a flail
maybe it’s my
so-called academic training all those gentlemen with
lexicons open
‘Lieu Vague’, a poem by Anne Carson:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
sadder I get
everything turns into a proof or an argument or a flail
maybe it’s my
so-called academic training all those gentlemen with
lexicons open
‘Lieu Vague’, a poem by Anne Carson:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘Outside Venezuela, many of the millions who have left the country were gladdened by Maduro’s downfall. But it’s not clear that his overthrow will benefit them either. If anything, it may make their predicament worse.’
Tony Wood in the next issue, online early.
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Tony Wood in the next issue, online early.
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Tony Wood · On Venezuela
The choice of narco-trafficking as the pretext is partly motivated by a desire to skirt even the feeble murmurs that...
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January 10, 2026 at 5:50 PM
‘Outside Venezuela, many of the millions who have left the country were gladdened by Maduro’s downfall. But it’s not clear that his overthrow will benefit them either. If anything, it may make their predicament worse.’
Tony Wood in the next issue, online early.
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Tony Wood in the next issue, online early.
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‘In September, a suitcase filled with sculptural odds and ends was discovered beneath a spiral staircase in Louise Bourgeois’s house in Chelsea, New York. Bourgeois died in 2010, aged 98, but the suitcase hadn’t been touched in more than forty years.’
Jo Applin:
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Jo Applin:
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Jo Applin · Diary: Louise Bourgeois’s Suitcase
In September, a suitcase filled with sculptural odds and ends was discovered beneath a spiral staircase in Louise...
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January 10, 2026 at 5:10 PM
‘In September, a suitcase filled with sculptural odds and ends was discovered beneath a spiral staircase in Louise Bourgeois’s house in Chelsea, New York. Bourgeois died in 2010, aged 98, but the suitcase hadn’t been touched in more than forty years.’
Jo Applin:
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Jo Applin:
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‘James loved language and rhetoric. He could swear like a sailor, but coined new words – Anglican, anorexia, Highlander – and is quoted more than 650 times in the 𝘖𝘌𝘋.’
@alicehunt.bsky.social on James VI and I.
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@alicehunt.bsky.social on James VI and I.
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Alice Hunt · Out of Rehab: Two Kings or One?
Above all, Jackson presents James as a ‘king of words’. No king before or since has written so thoughtfully about...
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January 10, 2026 at 3:30 PM
‘James loved language and rhetoric. He could swear like a sailor, but coined new words – Anglican, anorexia, Highlander – and is quoted more than 650 times in the 𝘖𝘌𝘋.’
@alicehunt.bsky.social on James VI and I.
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@alicehunt.bsky.social on James VI and I.
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In a live episode of the 𝘓𝘙𝘉 podcast 𝘈𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘤𝘬at the
@londonreviewbookshop.co.uk on 21 January, Daniel Soar, Patrick Cockburn, @lalehkhalili.bsky.social and
@tomstevenson.bsky.social will discuss the long aftermath of 9/11 and the War on Terror.
Tickets here:
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@londonreviewbookshop.co.uk on 21 January, Daniel Soar, Patrick Cockburn, @lalehkhalili.bsky.social and
@tomstevenson.bsky.social will discuss the long aftermath of 9/11 and the War on Terror.
Tickets here:
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Aftershock: Patrick Cockburn, Laleh Khalili & Tom Stevenson
A live episode of the LRB podcast Aftershock with Patrick Cockburn, Laleh Khalili & Tom Stevenson chaired by LRB senior editor Daniel Soar.
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January 10, 2026 at 2:15 PM
In a live episode of the 𝘓𝘙𝘉 podcast 𝘈𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘤𝘬at the
@londonreviewbookshop.co.uk on 21 January, Daniel Soar, Patrick Cockburn, @lalehkhalili.bsky.social and
@tomstevenson.bsky.social will discuss the long aftermath of 9/11 and the War on Terror.
Tickets here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/aftershock...
@londonreviewbookshop.co.uk on 21 January, Daniel Soar, Patrick Cockburn, @lalehkhalili.bsky.social and
@tomstevenson.bsky.social will discuss the long aftermath of 9/11 and the War on Terror.
Tickets here:
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‘The security forces have responded with tear gas and live ammunition, but people have stood their ground. Some protesters have tried to engage the police in conversation, asking about their own economic hardships.’
Raha Nik-Andish reports from Iran, on the blog.
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Raha Nik-Andish reports from Iran, on the blog.
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Raha Nik-Andish | Driving in the Dark
This piece was written before Iran imposed an internet blackout on 8 January.Six months ago I thought about buying a car...
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January 10, 2026 at 1:30 PM
‘The security forces have responded with tear gas and live ammunition, but people have stood their ground. Some protesters have tried to engage the police in conversation, asking about their own economic hardships.’
Raha Nik-Andish reports from Iran, on the blog.
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Raha Nik-Andish reports from Iran, on the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ja...
‘How does he have time to learn about the Milwaukeean shoe stores that used fluoroscopes to X-ray a customer’s foot for the perfect fit? I wish I could see his library.’
Daniel Soar reads Thomas Pynchon’s ‘Shadow Ticket’.
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Daniel Soar reads Thomas Pynchon’s ‘Shadow Ticket’.
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Daniel Soar · Land of Milk and Cheese: Pynchon’s World
The universe has no centre. What Pynchon has mapped is a world that is continuous and connected, where borders, however...
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January 10, 2026 at 12:50 PM
‘How does he have time to learn about the Milwaukeean shoe stores that used fluoroscopes to X-ray a customer’s foot for the perfect fit? I wish I could see his library.’
Daniel Soar reads Thomas Pynchon’s ‘Shadow Ticket’.
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Daniel Soar reads Thomas Pynchon’s ‘Shadow Ticket’.
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‘The kidnapping of Maduro seems to follow an older model, closer to the gunboat diplomacy which saw US troops occupy Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic between 1900 and 1934.’
Tony Wood on Trump and Venezuela, online now from the next issue.
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Tony Wood on Trump and Venezuela, online now from the next issue.
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Tony Wood · On Venezuela
The choice of narco-trafficking as the pretext is partly motivated by a desire to skirt even the feeble murmurs that...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 10, 2026 at 12:10 PM
‘The kidnapping of Maduro seems to follow an older model, closer to the gunboat diplomacy which saw US troops occupy Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic between 1900 and 1934.’
Tony Wood on Trump and Venezuela, online now from the next issue.
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Tony Wood on Trump and Venezuela, online now from the next issue.
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‘AI can’t hallucinate any more than a fridge can hallucinate. What it can do is just get things wrong. But the way in which it gets things wrong is very like the way a mind gets things wrong.’
John Lanchester on the AI bubble, on the podcast.
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John Lanchester on the AI bubble, on the podcast.
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Will the AI bubble burst?
Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 07/01/2026 · 55m
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January 10, 2026 at 11:11 AM
‘AI can’t hallucinate any more than a fridge can hallucinate. What it can do is just get things wrong. But the way in which it gets things wrong is very like the way a mind gets things wrong.’
John Lanchester on the AI bubble, on the podcast.
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John Lanchester on the AI bubble, on the podcast.
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‘During the Cold War, US-sponsored regime change was most often carried out at arm’s length. The kidnapping of Maduro seems to follow an older model, closer to the gunboat diplomacy which saw US troops occupy Cuba, Haiti and Nicaragua between 1900 and 1934.’
Tony Wood
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Tony Wood
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Tony Wood · On Venezuela
The choice of narco-trafficking as the pretext is partly motivated by a desire to skirt even the feeble murmurs that...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 10, 2026 at 11:10 AM
‘During the Cold War, US-sponsored regime change was most often carried out at arm’s length. The kidnapping of Maduro seems to follow an older model, closer to the gunboat diplomacy which saw US troops occupy Cuba, Haiti and Nicaragua between 1900 and 1934.’
Tony Wood
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tony Wood
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‘Britain is little different from France, Germany or Italy, but our electoral system struggles in multiparty contests. In 2024, this benefited Labour by splitting the right-wing vote. In 2029, it won’t.’
James Butler on the misery of Britain and Labour’s challenges:
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James Butler on the misery of Britain and Labour’s challenges:
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James Butler · Short Cuts: Labour’s Complacency
Only a terminally blithe technocrat could imagine that Reform will be punished for failing to grasp how the system works...
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January 10, 2026 at 9:53 AM
‘Britain is little different from France, Germany or Italy, but our electoral system struggles in multiparty contests. In 2024, this benefited Labour by splitting the right-wing vote. In 2029, it won’t.’
James Butler on the misery of Britain and Labour’s challenges:
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James Butler on the misery of Britain and Labour’s challenges:
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‘It’s unclear whether spiritual alchemy was any more successful in purifying the spirit than lab alchemy was in fabricating gold, but in pursuit of its goal, alchemy – both alchemies – deposited real treasure.’
Nick Richardson on the history of alchemy.
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Nick Richardson on the history of alchemy.
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Nick Richardson · Puffing on the Coals: Alchemical Art
Chemical reactions reflect human dramas, which reflect celestial movements, which reflect the mind of the divine. The...
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January 10, 2026 at 9:15 AM
‘It’s unclear whether spiritual alchemy was any more successful in purifying the spirit than lab alchemy was in fabricating gold, but in pursuit of its goal, alchemy – both alchemies – deposited real treasure.’
Nick Richardson on the history of alchemy.
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Nick Richardson on the history of alchemy.
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‘Representing what it fears and abominates can be accompanied (not infallibly, but in the Greek case lavishly) by representations of what it can’t stop looking at, resenting and desiring.’
T.J. Clark visits and re-visits a kouros, or Greek male statue, at the Met:
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T.J. Clark visits and re-visits a kouros, or Greek male statue, at the Met:
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T.J. Clark · A Kouros at the Met
It is one of the wonders of the world. You round a corner from the Met’s entrance hall and see the sculpture deep in a...
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January 9, 2026 at 8:29 PM
‘Representing what it fears and abominates can be accompanied (not infallibly, but in the Greek case lavishly) by representations of what it can’t stop looking at, resenting and desiring.’
T.J. Clark visits and re-visits a kouros, or Greek male statue, at the Met:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
T.J. Clark visits and re-visits a kouros, or Greek male statue, at the Met:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘Fewer students have been on campus because of repeated closures by the government. Last week universities were closed from Thursday to Sunday – not for Imam Ali’s birthday but to prevent illegal gatherings or protests on campuses.’
Raha Nik-Andish reports from Iran.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ja...
Raha Nik-Andish reports from Iran.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ja...
Raha Nik-Andish | Driving in the Dark
This piece was written before Iran imposed an internet blackout on 8 January.Six months ago I thought about buying a car...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 9, 2026 at 7:20 PM
‘Fewer students have been on campus because of repeated closures by the government. Last week universities were closed from Thursday to Sunday – not for Imam Ali’s birthday but to prevent illegal gatherings or protests on campuses.’
Raha Nik-Andish reports from Iran.
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Raha Nik-Andish reports from Iran.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ja...
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Jaqueline Rose is a touchstone thinker for me. Here she describes a meeting with Netanyahu in 2002 & writes of his messianic vision that Israel, & indeed all Jews, are "always on the brink of disaster," requiring "catastrophe & a war of resurrection to save them." A harrowing piece.
‘Netanyahu’s abiding fear is not that peace can never be achieved but that it might be.’
Jacqueline Rose on Netanyahu, the genocide in Gaza, and the crisis in Israel:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jacqueline Rose on Netanyahu, the genocide in Gaza, and the crisis in Israel:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jacqueline Rose · When the Messiah Comes: When I met Netanyahu
Netanyahu is trying to absolve himself of a guilt whose reality he denies. He wants to be declared innocent without...
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January 9, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Jaqueline Rose is a touchstone thinker for me. Here she describes a meeting with Netanyahu in 2002 & writes of his messianic vision that Israel, & indeed all Jews, are "always on the brink of disaster," requiring "catastrophe & a war of resurrection to save them." A harrowing piece.
‘“I watched it literally like I was watching a television show,” Donald Trump said.
“I watched last night one of the most precise attacks on sovereignty.” He then corrected himself: “I mean, it was an attack for justice.”’
NEW - Tony Wood on Venezuela:
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“I watched last night one of the most precise attacks on sovereignty.” He then corrected himself: “I mean, it was an attack for justice.”’
NEW - Tony Wood on Venezuela:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tony Wood · On Venezuela
The choice of narco-trafficking as the pretext is partly motivated by a desire to skirt even the feeble murmurs that...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 9, 2026 at 6:39 PM
‘“I watched it literally like I was watching a television show,” Donald Trump said.
“I watched last night one of the most precise attacks on sovereignty.” He then corrected himself: “I mean, it was an attack for justice.”’
NEW - Tony Wood on Venezuela:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
“I watched last night one of the most precise attacks on sovereignty.” He then corrected himself: “I mean, it was an attack for justice.”’
NEW - Tony Wood on Venezuela:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘Netanyahu’s abiding fear is not that peace can never be achieved but that it might be.’
Jacqueline Rose on Netanyahu, the genocide in Gaza, and the crisis in Israel:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jacqueline Rose on Netanyahu, the genocide in Gaza, and the crisis in Israel:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jacqueline Rose · When the Messiah Comes: When I met Netanyahu
Netanyahu is trying to absolve himself of a guilt whose reality he denies. He wants to be declared innocent without...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 9, 2026 at 5:54 PM
‘Netanyahu’s abiding fear is not that peace can never be achieved but that it might be.’
Jacqueline Rose on Netanyahu, the genocide in Gaza, and the crisis in Israel:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jacqueline Rose on Netanyahu, the genocide in Gaza, and the crisis in Israel:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘There’s a sort of alarming and mysterious aspect to this wave in AI: that thing about the nature of the black box. We don’t know why it’s coming to the conclusions it’s coming to.’
John Lanchester on the AI bubble, on the podcast:
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John Lanchester on the AI bubble, on the podcast:
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Will the AI bubble burst?
Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 07/01/2026 · 55m
podcasts.apple.com
January 9, 2026 at 5:10 PM
‘There’s a sort of alarming and mysterious aspect to this wave in AI: that thing about the nature of the black box. We don’t know why it’s coming to the conclusions it’s coming to.’
John Lanchester on the AI bubble, on the podcast:
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John Lanchester on the AI bubble, on the podcast:
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January 9, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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‘In popular culture, he provided the image of a smart person perpetually raining expertise on the congenitally distracted.’
Andrew O’Hagan on Walter Lippmann’s commitment to facts.
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Andrew O’Hagan on Walter Lippmann’s commitment to facts.
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Andrew O’Hagan · Fatal Realism: Walter Lippmann’s Warning
Lippmann was called the greatest journalist of his age, but his claims as an original thinker rest on his book Public...
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January 9, 2026 at 3:45 PM
‘In popular culture, he provided the image of a smart person perpetually raining expertise on the congenitally distracted.’
Andrew O’Hagan on Walter Lippmann’s commitment to facts.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Andrew O’Hagan on Walter Lippmann’s commitment to facts.
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David Bowie would have been 79 today. Here’s something I wrote about him back when he was 65. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...
Thomas Jones · So Ordinary, So Glamorous: Eternal Bowie
The cliché is to call Bowie a chameleon, but he was more like the very hungry caterpillar, munching his way through...
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January 8, 2026 at 1:41 PM
David Bowie would have been 79 today. Here’s something I wrote about him back when he was 65. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...
‘McCullin’s eye opened up a view of Palestinians that was rich and complex: fighters of course, but equally medics, people in business, landless farmers, refugees fleeing their assailants in Lebanon or mourning their dead.’
Jeremy Harding on 1970s Palestinian life.
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Jeremy Harding on 1970s Palestinian life.
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Jeremy Harding · Something Shameful: Britain and the Palestinians
To read The Palestinians nearly half a century later is to recognise that the many defeats the Palestinian population...
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January 9, 2026 at 2:55 PM
‘McCullin’s eye opened up a view of Palestinians that was rich and complex: fighters of course, but equally medics, people in business, landless farmers, refugees fleeing their assailants in Lebanon or mourning their dead.’
Jeremy Harding on 1970s Palestinian life.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jeremy Harding on 1970s Palestinian life.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘To be a Garland fan is to have the illusion that you can save her from the wounds of the world, even as her voice and her eyes and her gloriously melodic laugh seem instead to be saving you.’
@kitchenbee.bsky.social on the joy and pathos of Judy Garland:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@kitchenbee.bsky.social on the joy and pathos of Judy Garland:
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Bee Wilson · Two Pins and a Lollipop: Judy Garland’s Greatness
To be a Garland fan is to have the illusion that you can save her from the wounds of the world, even as her voice and...
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January 9, 2026 at 2:15 PM
‘To be a Garland fan is to have the illusion that you can save her from the wounds of the world, even as her voice and her eyes and her gloriously melodic laugh seem instead to be saving you.’
@kitchenbee.bsky.social on the joy and pathos of Judy Garland:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@kitchenbee.bsky.social on the joy and pathos of Judy Garland:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...