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Michael Wood · At the Movies: ‘Anora’
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The first hour of Anora, Sean Baker says, belongs to the genre of romantic comedy. This makes interesting sense if we...
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Fara Dabhoiwala · A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due
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The only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who...
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Donald MacKenzie · Hey Big Spender: What Your Smartphone Knows About You
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Tensions haunt our attitudes to the digital economy. We want privacy, but we also want free information and...
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Peter Geoghegan · Short Cuts: BP in Azerbaijan
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By 1993, BP had already spent millions of pounds in Azerbaijan. But it was still a long way from being ready to produce...
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David Renton | Money for Nothing, Jail for Free
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At the end of October, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, aka Tommy Robinson, began an eighteen-month jail sentence, following...
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Christopher Clark · Why should we think about the Revolutions of 1848 now?
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An account that views events only from an insurgent or liberal standpoint will miss an essential part of the drama and...
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Ruairí Casey | Questions of Funding
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The parliamentary resolution, entitled ‘Never again is now: Protecting, preserving and strengthening Jewish life in...
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Joanna Biggs · Glimpses of Utopia: Sally Rooney’s Couples
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At the end of each of Rooney’s novels, love triumphs partly because it might be the only form of solidarity, the only...
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Loubna El Amine | ‘Lest We Forget’
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The death toll in Lebanon has now risen past three thousand with more than thirteen thousand wounded. Entire...
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Jenny Turner · What else actually is there? On Gillian Rose
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Love’s Work is the ‘existential drama’ of a postwar Jewish British woman philosopher, born in London in 1947, who...
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Adam Tooze · Great Power Politics: What was Bidenomics?
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Whatever happens in the election, Bidenism is over. The project anchored on the long-serving senator from Delaware and...
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Lorraine Daston · Degrees of Wrinkledness: No More Mendelism
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In the metaphorical language that has always saturated the science of inheritance, the genome may turn out to be less...
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Tom Shippey · Blame the gerbils: After the Plague
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In The World the Plague Made James Belich has a hard case to make, and a somewhat heartless one: that the Black Death...
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Malcolm Gaskill · Pop, Crackle and Bang: Fireworks!
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The main application of gunpowder was inevitably in warfare, which has its own volatile story, but the enterprise of...
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Julian Barnes · La Chasse au Pinard: Drinking for France
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At the beginning of the 20th century, the French ‘drank substantially more than any other people in the world’. But...
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Andrew O’Hagan · Self-Hugging: A Paean to Boswell
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Admiration is defined by Johnson in that Dictionary as ‘taken sometimes in a bad sense, though generally in a good...
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Judith Butler · Who Owns Kafka?
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The very question of where Kafka belongs is already something of a scandal given the fact that the writing charts the...
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Eli Zaretsky | The Post-Zionist Jew
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Many Jews today feel torn. On the one hand, they feel loyalty to Israel, the land of their fellow Jews, many of whom...
on Oct 23
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Francis FitzGibbon · Diary: Why I Resigned
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The plan to ‘off-shore’ asylum seekers to Rwanda was the last straw. In May 2023, I resigned as a (part-time)...
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Rosamond McKitterick · Nation-building: Capetian Kings
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The lands the Capetian kings controlled would eventually expand far beyond the family territory of the Île-de-France,...
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Adam Shatz · After Nasrallah: Israel’s Forever War
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Israel’s leaders claim this war is existential, a matter of Jewish survival, and there is a grain of truth in this...
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Tom Johnson · Big Data for the Leviathan: Counting without Numbers
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In early modern England, numbers were something you could touch. On tally-sticks and abacuses, counting boards and...
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Sophia Goodfriend · Kill Lists
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The IDF’s AI-assisted systems allow the military to bypass the many intelligence analysts, munitions experts and...
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Deborah Friedell · Short Cuts: Reading J.D. Vance
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The narrator of Hillbilly Elegy doesn’t sound like someone who’s intending to run for office – otherwise,...
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John Lanchester · You Are the Product: It Zucks!
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I am scared of Facebook. The company’s ambition, its ruthlessness, and its lack of a moral compass scare me...
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Lorna Finlayson | Car Park Education
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You can tell a lot about the state of the contemporary university by looking at something peripheral: the parking. You...
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Richard Lloyd Parry · Akihito and the Sorrows of Japan: The Anxious Emperor
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Britain’s royal family is deplorable principally because it institutionalises the corrosive divisions of social class...
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Tom Shippey · Did they even hang bears? What made the Vikings tick?
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The more we know about the Vikings, the harder it becomes to say anything certain about them. This applies in particular...
on Oct 10
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Jonathan Rée · No Foreigners: Derrida’s Hospitality
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Apart from flashes of utopianism, Derrida’s conception of politics was quite old-fashioned, perhaps pre-Kantian:...
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James Butler · ‘This much evidence, still no charges’: On the Grenfell inquiry
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Every death at Grenfell was avoidable. Every death was the result of choices – acts of negligence, carelessness,...
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James Vincent · Horny Robot Baby Voice: On AI Chatbots
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Some of the pessimism surrounding AI chatbots stems from a belief that humans, like computers, can be hacked: that our...
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Stefan Tarnowski | Two Weeks in Beirut
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On Friday, 27 September, we felt the whole of Beirut shake. A huge plume of smoke was visible across the city. Israeli...
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Terry Eagleton · The Excitement of the Stuff: On Fredric Jameson
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Jameson’s exceptional range of interests pointed to the way an otherwise socially pointless literary criticism might...
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Helen Pfeifer · Flying Man: Central Asian Polymaths
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Abu Rayhan al-Biruni and Ibn Sina illustrate the region’s cosmopolitanism and ingenuity. While being grounded in the...
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Killing Hassan Nasrallah isn’t likely to hasten the defeat of Hamas in Gaza, or the return of the remaining hostages,...
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Michael Chessum | Acting Upstream
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Labour members have long used the party conference to push for a more humanitarian approach to immigration and asylum....
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Rosemary Hill · At the Musée des Arts Décoratifs: Death of the Department Store
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The department store is dying. It’s not the only building type to find itself marooned by social and economic change,...
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Robert Cioffi · Euripides Unbound
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The Euripides papyrus was uncovered using basic archaeological tools – a trowel, a brush and an instinct for reading...
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Forrest Hylton | Brazil Burning
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Following a prolonged drought, smoke from wildfires in the Amazon basin is choking people over an enormous swath of...
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The Editors | Fredric Jameson 1934-2024
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Fredric Jameson died yesterday at the age of 90. He had taught since 1985 at Duke University. His many books include ...
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Tom Stevenson · Short Cuts: All Talk, No Ceasefire
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The delegations negotiating a ceasefire in Gaza have met more than a dozen times, though it’s hard to point to...
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Oliver Cussen · Prophet of the Past: Blame it on Malthus
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In the guise of natural theology, Malthusian political economy soon became the common sense of a middle class brought up...
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T.J. Clark · Knife at the Throat: Fanon’s Contradictions
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Fanon’s world has a logic. His pages are full of identities, contradictions, Aufhebungen – master and slave, being...
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Barbara Newman · Cartwheels down the aisle: Byzantine Intersectionality
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Gender fluidity was well recognised in Byzantium, and though many writers deplored it, some were proud to claim...
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It’s hard to see how Nasrallah’s prudence will survive the pager and short-wave radio attacks of this week, which...
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David Bromwich · Spaces between the Stars: Kubrick Does It Himself
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Kubrick always means it. The focus never really pulls away; there is a substance, a purpose, a weightiness in the...
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Jean McNicol · Different for Girls: On Women’s Gymnastics
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Early in her career Simone Biles was described in ways that made clear that she wasn’t the shape of the supposed ideal...
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The Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury died yesterday at the age of 76. When his early book The Little Mountain (1977) was...
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Eli Zaretsky | What Computers Can’t Do
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The question of what computers can’t do was posed in 1972 by the philosopher Hubert Dreyfus. Dreyfus’s answer –...
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Mary Beard · Iron in the Soul: Bloody Jane
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The old stereotype of Greek religion collapsed under her onslaught. No scholar since has been able to ignore the...
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