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Issue 47.21 is now online, featuring:
David Runciman on the depopulation problem
John Kerrigan on the Atlantic slave trade
Donald MacKenzie on the future of Google
Holly Case on Habsburg legacies
@brettchristophers.bsky.social on waste
and a poem by @joriegraham.bsky.social.
Read at www.lrb.co.uk
David Runciman on the depopulation problem
John Kerrigan on the Atlantic slave trade
Donald MacKenzie on the future of Google
Holly Case on Habsburg legacies
@brettchristophers.bsky.social on waste
and a poem by @joriegraham.bsky.social.
Read at www.lrb.co.uk
‘Of all the violent phases in the history of Liverpool, the slave trade was the most vicious, yet it was barely acknowledged until recently.’
John Kerrigan on Liverpool, the Atlantic slave trade and m. nourbeSe philip’s long poem 𝘡𝘰𝘯𝘨!
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John Kerrigan on Liverpool, the Atlantic slave trade and m. nourbeSe philip’s long poem 𝘡𝘰𝘯𝘨!
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John Kerrigan · No Illusions: Syntax of Slavery
Slavery was accepted across most of the early modern world. No one wanted to be a slave, except when the alternative was...
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November 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM
‘Of all the violent phases in the history of Liverpool, the slave trade was the most vicious, yet it was barely acknowledged until recently.’
John Kerrigan on Liverpool, the Atlantic slave trade and m. nourbeSe philip’s long poem 𝘡𝘰𝘯𝘨!
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John Kerrigan on Liverpool, the Atlantic slave trade and m. nourbeSe philip’s long poem 𝘡𝘰𝘯𝘨!
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‘Just one of either depopulation in the North or climate change in the South could be enough to drive mass migration.
Anyone who thinks the 21st century will not see the biggest global movement of peoples in history has not been paying attention.’
David Runciman:
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Anyone who thinks the 21st century will not see the biggest global movement of peoples in history has not been paying attention.’
David Runciman:
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David Runciman · Are we doomed? The End of the Species
Are we doomed to die out? We find ourselves at the only point in the history of the species when the rate of population...
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November 25, 2025 at 7:15 PM
‘Just one of either depopulation in the North or climate change in the South could be enough to drive mass migration.
Anyone who thinks the 21st century will not see the biggest global movement of peoples in history has not been paying attention.’
David Runciman:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Anyone who thinks the 21st century will not see the biggest global movement of peoples in history has not been paying attention.’
David Runciman:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘The brand of politics called “Odingaism” relied on the threat of unfinished revolution: Kenyan governments knew that if they refused to negotiate with the Odingas or to offer limited reforms, they might face collective resistance.’
Kevin Okoth on Raila Odinga:
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Kevin Okoth on Raila Odinga:
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Kevin Okoth · Short Cuts: Kenya after Odinga
I had been back in Nairobi for a few days when I heard that Raila Odinga, the towering opposition figure who played a...
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November 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
‘The brand of politics called “Odingaism” relied on the threat of unfinished revolution: Kenyan governments knew that if they refused to negotiate with the Odingas or to offer limited reforms, they might face collective resistance.’
Kevin Okoth on Raila Odinga:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Kevin Okoth on Raila Odinga:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘For local Farage fans, immigration is more important than carbon emissions. There is, of course, no necessary connection between the two, but Reform has made one: vote for swift deportations, get fracking.’
James Meek visits Blyth, online early from the next issue.
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James Meek visits Blyth, online early from the next issue.
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James Meek · Ten-Foot Chopsticks: The North-East Transition
The ghost of the industrial revolution haunts Britain. The language of today’s politicians, of unlocking and...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
‘For local Farage fans, immigration is more important than carbon emissions. There is, of course, no necessary connection between the two, but Reform has made one: vote for swift deportations, get fracking.’
James Meek visits Blyth, online early from the next issue.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
James Meek visits Blyth, online early from the next issue.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
I listen to the day.
I remember the rule of law, the rule
of the two-second advantage,
it sounds like endings,
a vacancy expecting re-
velation, re-
evaluation, expecting
to become a river of selves, of dis-
appearing selves
A poem by @joriegraham.bsky.social:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
I remember the rule of law, the rule
of the two-second advantage,
it sounds like endings,
a vacancy expecting re-
velation, re-
evaluation, expecting
to become a river of selves, of dis-
appearing selves
A poem by @joriegraham.bsky.social:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jorie Graham · Poem: ‘Demonstration’
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November 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I listen to the day.
I remember the rule of law, the rule
of the two-second advantage,
it sounds like endings,
a vacancy expecting re-
velation, re-
evaluation, expecting
to become a river of selves, of dis-
appearing selves
A poem by @joriegraham.bsky.social:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
I remember the rule of law, the rule
of the two-second advantage,
it sounds like endings,
a vacancy expecting re-
velation, re-
evaluation, expecting
to become a river of selves, of dis-
appearing selves
A poem by @joriegraham.bsky.social:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘Some victims are thought to lie under the concrete pilings of the dams and motorways that changed the Spanish landscape from the late 1950s onwards.’
Stephen Phelan on the ‘disappeared’ of Spain’s civil war.
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Stephen Phelan on the ‘disappeared’ of Spain’s civil war.
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Stephen Phelan · Diary: Spain’s Disappeared
Emilio Silva set up the Asociación para la Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica to improve and formalise the process...
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November 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
‘Some victims are thought to lie under the concrete pilings of the dams and motorways that changed the Spanish landscape from the late 1950s onwards.’
Stephen Phelan on the ‘disappeared’ of Spain’s civil war.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Stephen Phelan on the ‘disappeared’ of Spain’s civil war.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘Ruth’s discernment emerges from Kate Riley’s own gift for language. The sentences are tart, exact and pleased with their own compression, landing like punchlines.’
Josie Mitchell on Riley’s debut novel ‘Ruth’, an exploration of life in an Anabaptist sect.
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Josie Mitchell on Riley’s debut novel ‘Ruth’, an exploration of life in an Anabaptist sect.
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Josie Mitchell · Abridged Cow Skeleton: Kate Riley’s ‘Ruth’
In Ruth, Kate Riley layers two views of the church: on the one hand, a hidden but unquestionable authority, ‘like some...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM
‘Ruth’s discernment emerges from Kate Riley’s own gift for language. The sentences are tart, exact and pleased with their own compression, landing like punchlines.’
Josie Mitchell on Riley’s debut novel ‘Ruth’, an exploration of life in an Anabaptist sect.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Josie Mitchell on Riley’s debut novel ‘Ruth’, an exploration of life in an Anabaptist sect.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘As long as he could convince the antiquities police guard at the airport X-ray machine that his suitcase contained a plaster souvenir instead of a stone artefact weighing ten times as much, Tokeley-Parry was in the clear.’
Erin L. Thompson on a prolific smuggler.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Erin L. Thompson on a prolific smuggler.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Erin L. Thompson | Fake it till you make it
Jonathan Tokeley-Parry, who died last month, had a business card in the early 1990s that described him as ‘Jonty “...
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November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
‘As long as he could convince the antiquities police guard at the airport X-ray machine that his suitcase contained a plaster souvenir instead of a stone artefact weighing ten times as much, Tokeley-Parry was in the clear.’
Erin L. Thompson on a prolific smuggler.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Erin L. Thompson on a prolific smuggler.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
‘Before the kits, almost a third of the evidence collected from sexual assault victims in Cook County, Illinois had been inadmissible; after they were introduced, that figure fell to 2 per cent.’
Tess Little on how the ‘rape kit’ transformed sexual assault prosecutions
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Tess Little on how the ‘rape kit’ transformed sexual assault prosecutions
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Tess Little · Nutshell Crime Scenes: The Rape Kit
The rape kit is a cardboard box containing ordinary items anyone might own: envelopes, combs, swabs, nail clippers....
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November 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
‘Before the kits, almost a third of the evidence collected from sexual assault victims in Cook County, Illinois had been inadmissible; after they were introduced, that figure fell to 2 per cent.’
Tess Little on how the ‘rape kit’ transformed sexual assault prosecutions
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tess Little on how the ‘rape kit’ transformed sexual assault prosecutions
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘The wind turbine and the Catapult building advertise Blyth’s centrality to the carbon-free economy of the future. They advertise it, but I don’t quite believe it, and neither, judging by the local popularity of Reform, does Blyth.’
James Meek in the new issue:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
James Meek in the new issue:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
James Meek · Ten-Foot Chopsticks: The North-East Transition
The ghost of the industrial revolution haunts Britain. The language of today’s politicians, of unlocking and...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 12:35 PM
‘The wind turbine and the Catapult building advertise Blyth’s centrality to the carbon-free economy of the future. They advertise it, but I don’t quite believe it, and neither, judging by the local popularity of Reform, does Blyth.’
James Meek in the new issue:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
James Meek in the new issue:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘Gutenberg seems to have had a habit of falling out with people.’
Adam Smyth (@adamwithbooks.bsky.social) on a biography of the printer told through his books.
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Adam Smyth (@adamwithbooks.bsky.social) on a biography of the printer told through his books.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Smyth · Slice It Up: Gutenberg’s Great Invention
Gutenberg remains unknowable: an implied but not a felt presence. This is true for all but a small number of 15th-...
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November 25, 2025 at 11:55 AM
‘Gutenberg seems to have had a habit of falling out with people.’
Adam Smyth (@adamwithbooks.bsky.social) on a biography of the printer told through his books.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Smyth (@adamwithbooks.bsky.social) on a biography of the printer told through his books.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘Attempting to select “intelligent” embryos based on their genetic make-up, or to produce them by altering their genomes, is to make a category error.’
Jonathan Flint and Iain Mathieson on how little we know about what genes are ‘for’.
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Jonathan Flint and Iain Mathieson on how little we know about what genes are ‘for’.
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Jonathan Flint and Iain Mathieson · What’s in the junk? Genetic Effects
Over the last fifty years or so, geneticists have gone from asserting that there is no evidence for the heritability of...
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November 25, 2025 at 10:35 AM
‘Attempting to select “intelligent” embryos based on their genetic make-up, or to produce them by altering their genomes, is to make a category error.’
Jonathan Flint and Iain Mathieson on how little we know about what genes are ‘for’.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jonathan Flint and Iain Mathieson on how little we know about what genes are ‘for’.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘“We are here, we are alive and we matter,” is the message so many of these images convey.
But, much like McQueen’s other explorations of British history, “Resistance” leaves it to us to work out what that legacy means today.’
@trillingual.bsky.social reviews.
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But, much like McQueen’s other explorations of British history, “Resistance” leaves it to us to work out what that legacy means today.’
@trillingual.bsky.social reviews.
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Daniel Trilling · At Modern Two: Protest Photography
Although the events depicted in Resistance are familiar territory for an exhibition concerned with social history –...
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November 25, 2025 at 9:15 AM
‘“We are here, we are alive and we matter,” is the message so many of these images convey.
But, much like McQueen’s other explorations of British history, “Resistance” leaves it to us to work out what that legacy means today.’
@trillingual.bsky.social reviews.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
But, much like McQueen’s other explorations of British history, “Resistance” leaves it to us to work out what that legacy means today.’
@trillingual.bsky.social reviews.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘Crumb is both an observant satirist and a self-aware student of his own drives. His grasp of American vernacular and his sardonic humour suggest a comparison with Mark Twain.’
@jhoberman.bsky.social on the cartoonist.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@jhoberman.bsky.social on the cartoonist.
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J. Hoberman · Desperate Character: Rambunctious R. Crumb
Rambunctious and often offensive, R. Crumb draws freely on pre-existing racial and gender stereotypes, and always draws...
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November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
‘Crumb is both an observant satirist and a self-aware student of his own drives. His grasp of American vernacular and his sardonic humour suggest a comparison with Mark Twain.’
@jhoberman.bsky.social on the cartoonist.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@jhoberman.bsky.social on the cartoonist.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘The problem is that we are now recycling so much stuff that it’s impossible to recycle it all.’
@brettchristophers.bsky.social reviews three new books on the problem of trash, including 𝘞𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 by Oliver Franklin-Wallis and Alexander Clapp’s 𝘞𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘳𝘴.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@brettchristophers.bsky.social reviews three new books on the problem of trash, including 𝘞𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 by Oliver Franklin-Wallis and Alexander Clapp’s 𝘞𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘳𝘴.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Brett Christophers · Assume the worst: Where our waste goes
Just as Big Oil has repeatedly failed to deliver on pledges to begin decarbonising, so too the promises of plastics...
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November 24, 2025 at 8:05 PM
‘The problem is that we are now recycling so much stuff that it’s impossible to recycle it all.’
@brettchristophers.bsky.social reviews three new books on the problem of trash, including 𝘞𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 by Oliver Franklin-Wallis and Alexander Clapp’s 𝘞𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘳𝘴.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@brettchristophers.bsky.social reviews three new books on the problem of trash, including 𝘞𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 by Oliver Franklin-Wallis and Alexander Clapp’s 𝘞𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘳𝘴.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘A decade ago, political scientists pointed to maps showing that the legacy of Habsburg rule was still visible in Ukrainians’ electoral preferences.’
Holly Case on how the Habsburg experiment shaped Europe.
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Holly Case on how the Habsburg experiment shaped Europe.
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Holly Case · Thin Pink Glaze: Habsburg Legacies
We still live in the long shadow of Habsburg disintegration. In addition to the lingering legacy of 19th-century state...
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November 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
‘A decade ago, political scientists pointed to maps showing that the legacy of Habsburg rule was still visible in Ukrainians’ electoral preferences.’
Holly Case on how the Habsburg experiment shaped Europe.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Holly Case on how the Habsburg experiment shaped Europe.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘By his own estimate, Jonathan Tokeley-Parry smuggled three thousand antiquities out of Egypt in 65 trips over six years. His success was down to his skill as a “fabricator”.’
Erin L. Thompson (@artcrimeprof.bsky.social) on the blog:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Erin L. Thompson (@artcrimeprof.bsky.social) on the blog:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Erin L. Thompson | Fake it till you make it
Jonathan Tokeley-Parry, who died last month, had a business card in the early 1990s that described him as ‘Jonty “...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
‘By his own estimate, Jonathan Tokeley-Parry smuggled three thousand antiquities out of Egypt in 65 trips over six years. His success was down to his skill as a “fabricator”.’
Erin L. Thompson (@artcrimeprof.bsky.social) on the blog:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Erin L. Thompson (@artcrimeprof.bsky.social) on the blog:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
‘During the Second World War, American and British scientists tried to solve the problem by making penicillin synthetically in a test tube. But they failed. The fungi were capable of far more advanced metabolic magic.‘
Liam Shaw on the challenges of antiobiotics.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Liam Shaw on the challenges of antiobiotics.
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Liam Shaw | Metabolic Magic
Streptomycetes are soil bacteria that could easily be mistaken for fungi, their cells snaking through the earth in long...
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November 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
‘During the Second World War, American and British scientists tried to solve the problem by making penicillin synthetically in a test tube. But they failed. The fungi were capable of far more advanced metabolic magic.‘
Liam Shaw on the challenges of antiobiotics.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Liam Shaw on the challenges of antiobiotics.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
‘Search can sometimes take you to places you don’t want to go. But at least a “classical” search engine like Google in the 2000s and 2010s took you outside itself, and perhaps prompted you to evaluate what you found there.’
Donald MacKenzie on Google’s future:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Donald MacKenzie on Google’s future:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Donald MacKenzie · The Future of Search: Will we still google it?
I’m starting to feel some pre-emptive nostalgia when I do a Google search. Yes, it’s true, search can sometimes take...
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November 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
‘Search can sometimes take you to places you don’t want to go. But at least a “classical” search engine like Google in the 2000s and 2010s took you outside itself, and perhaps prompted you to evaluate what you found there.’
Donald MacKenzie on Google’s future:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Donald MacKenzie on Google’s future:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘It’s always been odd that Faragism, a tendency that is bound to make small gods out of Nelson and Raleigh, should have such a hysterical loathing of wind power.’
@jamesmeek.bsky.social on Reform and the green energy transition, published online early:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@jamesmeek.bsky.social on Reform and the green energy transition, published online early:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
James Meek · Ten-Foot Chopsticks: The North-East Transition
The ghost of the industrial revolution haunts Britain. The language of today’s politicians, of unlocking and...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
‘It’s always been odd that Faragism, a tendency that is bound to make small gods out of Nelson and Raleigh, should have such a hysterical loathing of wind power.’
@jamesmeek.bsky.social on Reform and the green energy transition, published online early:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@jamesmeek.bsky.social on Reform and the green energy transition, published online early:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘The Great Famine remains a decisive turning point in Irish history. It came to be seen not merely as a natural disaster, but as a political event – a symbol of colonial exploitation and neglect.’
Niamh Gallagher:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Niamh Gallagher:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Niamh Gallagher · Carrion and Earth: Ireland’s Great Famine
Although Ireland had endured earlier famines – including one in the 1740s that, proportionally, claimed more lives...
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November 24, 2025 at 3:25 PM
‘The Great Famine remains a decisive turning point in Irish history. It came to be seen not merely as a natural disaster, but as a political event – a symbol of colonial exploitation and neglect.’
Niamh Gallagher:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Niamh Gallagher:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Put some thought into Christmas: get them a subscription to the 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘯 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Put some thought into Christmas: get them a subscription to the 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘯 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴.
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‘By 1790, one in eight Liverpool households were dependent on the slave trade.’
John Kerrigan on Liverpool, the Atlantic slave trade and m. nourbeSe philip’s long poem 𝘡𝘰𝘯𝘨!
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John Kerrigan on Liverpool, the Atlantic slave trade and m. nourbeSe philip’s long poem 𝘡𝘰𝘯𝘨!
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John Kerrigan · No Illusions: Syntax of Slavery
Slavery was accepted across most of the early modern world. No one wanted to be a slave, except when the alternative was...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM
‘By 1790, one in eight Liverpool households were dependent on the slave trade.’
John Kerrigan on Liverpool, the Atlantic slave trade and m. nourbeSe philip’s long poem 𝘡𝘰𝘯𝘨!
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John Kerrigan on Liverpool, the Atlantic slave trade and m. nourbeSe philip’s long poem 𝘡𝘰𝘯𝘨!
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘There is no magic bullet. Neither geographic isolation nor a sense of existential threat can be readily reproduced. Meanwhile, current policy prescriptions look like tinkering round the edges of the problem.’
David Runciman on how to solve the depopulation problem.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
David Runciman on how to solve the depopulation problem.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
David Runciman · Are we doomed? The End of the Species
Are we doomed to die out? We find ourselves at the only point in the history of the species when the rate of population...
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November 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
‘There is no magic bullet. Neither geographic isolation nor a sense of existential threat can be readily reproduced. Meanwhile, current policy prescriptions look like tinkering round the edges of the problem.’
David Runciman on how to solve the depopulation problem.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
David Runciman on how to solve the depopulation problem.
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‘Kate Riley is concerned less with religious feeling than with scripture’s social afterlife: the way a community attempts to enact its values, and the question of whether belonging to such an insular world represents a life well lived.’
Josie Mitchell on Riley’s debut.
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Josie Mitchell on Riley’s debut.
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Josie Mitchell · Abridged Cow Skeleton: Kate Riley’s ‘Ruth’
In Ruth, Kate Riley layers two views of the church: on the one hand, a hidden but unquestionable authority, ‘like some...
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November 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
‘Kate Riley is concerned less with religious feeling than with scripture’s social afterlife: the way a community attempts to enact its values, and the question of whether belonging to such an insular world represents a life well lived.’
Josie Mitchell on Riley’s debut.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Josie Mitchell on Riley’s debut.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...