LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS (January 31, 2025): The latest issue features David Runciman on President $Trump; Versions of Hamas and Toril Mok on Vigdis Hjorth…
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LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS (Janaury 15, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Reagan’s Make-Believe’….
Reagan’s Make Believe
Reagan: His Life and Legend
by Max Boot.
That Shape Am I
On Mysticism: The Experience of Ecstasy
by Simon Critchley.
T.J. Clark: A Brief Guide to Trump and the Spectacle
Matt Foot: Short Cuts
Jackson Lears: Reagan’s Make-Believe
Nicole Flattery: Candy Says
Brian Dillon: At the Whitechapel
Jonathan Parry: Snobs, Swots and Hacks
Stefan Collini: Karl Polanyi’s Predictions
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Disputing Disaster: A Sextet on the Great War by Perry Anderson.
Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert, translated by Raymond N. MacKenzie
Diarmaid MacCulloch
The Thistle and the Rose: The Extraordinary Life of Margaret Tudor by Linda Porter
Jessica Olin
The Collected Works of Wyndham Lewis: ‘Time and Western Man’ edited by Paul Edwards
London Review Of Books – November 21, 2024 Preview
The Democrats’ Defeat
By Adam Tooze
‘Being the party of normality has its appeal, but it reinforces precisely the wrong instinct. The polycrisis that is unfolding demands not a return to the status quo but urgent, progressive answers both at home and abroad. To formulate and articulate those, the Democrats need politicians, not algorithms. They need personalities capable of responding to the profound questions facing contemporary America.’
Ukraine’s Battle Fatigue
James Meek
‘Would the army as a whole rise up against a government that made territorial concessions to Russia? Perhaps. But the more widely the recruiters spread their net, the more the army reflects a society that is starting to talk openly, if bitterly, about swapping land for peace.’
Exit Wounds: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence across the Border by Ieva Jusionyte
Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling by Jason de León
London Review Of Books – November 7, 2024 Preview
Jenny Turner
Love’s Work by Gillian Rose – Marxist Modernism: Introductory Lectures on Frankfurt School Critical Theory by Gillian Rose, edited by Robert Lucas Scott and James Gordon Finlayson
Josephine Quinn – At the British Museum: ‘Silk Roads’
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite – The Searchers: Five Rebels, Their Dream of a Different Britain and Their Many Enemies by Andy BeckettA Woman like Me by Diane AbbottKeir Starmer: The Biography by Tom Baldwin
London Review Of Books – October 24, 2024 Preview
To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement by Benjamin Nathans
By Michael Wood
At the Movies: ‘Megalopolis’
Believe Nothing until It Is Officially Denied: Claud Cockburn and the Invention of Guerrilla Journalism by Patrick Cockburn
After Nasrallah
Short Cuts: Reading J.D. Vance
London Review Of Books – October 10, 2024 Preview
John Kerrigan
England’s Insular Imagining: The Elizabethan Erasure of Scotland by Lorna Hutson
A.E. Stallings
Poem: ‘The Plum Tree’
Helen Pfeifer
The Genius of Their Age: Ibn Sina, Biruni and the Lost Enlightenment by S. Frederick Starr
Katherine Harloe
The Muse of History: The Ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment to the Present by Oswyn Murray
David Runciman
Short Cuts: Just ask Tony
Terry Eagleton
The Years of Theory: Postwar French Thought to the Present by Fredric Jameson
James Vincent
Horny Robot Baby Voice
London Review Of Books – September 26, 2024 Preview
Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender and Race in the Middle Ages by Roland Betancourt
At the Movies: ‘Only the River Flows’ by Michael Wood
From Tudor to Stuart: The Regime Change from Elizabeth I to James I by Susan Doran – Clare Jackson
Kubrick: An Odyssey by Robert P. Kolker and Nathan Abrams – David Bromwich
London Review Of Books – August 15, 2024 Preview
Trivialised to Death
Reading Genesis
by Marilynne Robinson.
By James Butler
The first time the man heard God, he uprooted his entire life, though he was very old. Then God appeared to him in person, an event which would embarrass later thinkers. God made the man an impossible promise in the shape of a son. His wife was ninety, and she laughed. When the child arrived, it was hardly unreasonable to think it a miracle. They named the child after the laughter.
Just say it, Henry
The Prefaces
by Henry James, edited by Oliver Herford.
By Colin Burrow
In 1904 Henry James’s agent negotiated with the American publisher Charles Scribner’s Sons to produce a collected edition of his works. The New York Edition of the Novels and Tales of Henry James duly appeared in 1907-9. It presented revised texts of both James’s shorter and longer fiction, with freshly written prefaces to each volume. It didn’t include everything: ‘I want to quietly disown a few things by not thus supremely adopting them,’ as James put it. The ‘disowned’ works included some early gems such as The Europeans. The labour of ‘supremely adopting’ the stuff he still thought worthy was grinding. He worked on the new prefaces, which he described as ‘freely colloquial and even, perhaps, as I may say, confidential’ (though James’s notion of the ‘freely colloquial’ is perhaps not everyone’s) during the years 1905 to 1909. In some respects, the venture was not a success. ‘Vulgarly speaking,’ James said of the New York Edition, ‘it doesn’t sell.’
Different for Girls
By Jean McNicol
A week before the start of the Paris Olympics, Shoko Miyata, the 19-year-old captain of the Japanese women’s gymnastics team, was forced to withdraw from the competition by her national association. She had been reported to the Japan Gymnastics Association for smoking and drinking (on separate occasions, once for each offence). The president of the JGA, Tadashi Fujita, announced that Miyata had been sent home, and bowed deeply.
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