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Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – Feb 16, 2024

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Times Literary Supplement (February 14, 2024): The latest issue features Thinking AI; London literary consequences, A new play in the great tradition, and Household terrors…

This week’s @TheTLS, featuring @richardlea on space; @wooldridgemike on AI; Margaret Drabble on London Consequences; @MirandaFrance1 on Lara Pawson; @TobyLichtig on Till the Stars Come Down; @Ram_Guha on Churchill; @MadocCairns on the church in the US; @rinireg on meat – and more pic.twitter.com/XiU8E7KCUl
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) February 14, 2024

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Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – Feb 9, 2024

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Times Literary Supplement (February 7, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Cancel Culture’ – The limits of academic free speech; An Auschwitz memoir; Wittgenstein’s bombshell; Horrible legions and Dutch artobiography…

This week’s @TheTLS, featuring Carol Tavris on free speech; @TobyLichtig on József Debreczeni; @HettieJudah on Laura Cumming and Benjamin Moser; @JonathanEgid on the Tractatus; @PeterStothard1 on Legion at the BM; @henryhitchings on Burton and Taylor – and more pic.twitter.com/q8911jyMmF
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) February 7, 2024

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Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – Feb 2, 2024

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Times Literary Supplement (January 31 2024): The latest issue features ‘Back to Nature’ – The counterculture begins with Thoreau; Enlightenment dimmed; The secret state and the IRA; Homosexuality in early modern Europe and A family haunting….

This week’s @TheTLS, featuring Ritchie Robertson on the end of the Enlightenment; Costica Bradatan on Thoreau; Adam Mars-Jones on All of Us Strangers; @tylercowen on the Clinton years; @georgie_cat_ on Werner Herzog; Sarah Foot on Bede – and more pic.twitter.com/bxcIN8OUFu
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) January 31, 2024

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Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – Jan 26, 2024

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Times Literary Supplement (January 24, 2024): The latest issue features ‘The Rich Are Always With Us’ – Ferdinand Mount on taming the plutocrats; Empire’s balance sheet; Who is Charles III?; Silvia Townsend Warner’s revival and ChatGPT goes to college…

This week’s @TheTLS, featuring Ferdinand Mount on plutocracy; Eric Naiman on ChatGPT and Dostoevsky; @DrPragyaAgarwal on Egill Saebförnsson; @LamornaAsh on Mean Girls Redux; @claire_harman on Sylvia Townsend Warner; @henryhitchings on superabundance – and more pic.twitter.com/KkSPoSJmLw
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) January 24, 2024

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Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – Jan 19, 2024

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Times Literary Supplement (January 17, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Power Failure’ – The retreat from net zero; Canon wars; The end of literary criticism; Empires imprint on the Middle East; Harvard and plagarism….

This week’s @TheTLS, featuring @PeterKGeoghegan on Net Zero; @GordonDFraser on the canon; new poems by @BevisKathryn and @MrRavoon; @msannapicard on Elektra at the ROH; me on Poor Things; @georgeccochrane on Colin Barrett; @rinireg on the Harvard plagiarism row – and more pic.twitter.com/Aiy4vpro6f
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) January 17, 2024

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Essays & Reviews: The Point Magazine – Winter 2024

December 17, 2023 She Seeks Serene Leave a comment

The Point Magazine (December 17, 2023) – The latest issue features ‘Entering History’ – Leave it to Zadie Smith to include a political Rorschach test in her latest novel; ‘Within the Pretense of No Pretense’ – Technology was the wonder of our age. It seemed to promise us power, and we took this power for our own; Venice Architecture Biennale – The city of Venice may very well be, as the architecture theorist Manfredo Tafuri once claimed, “an unbearable challenge to the world of modernity,”, and more….