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During protests in the US in the middle of 2020, a Predator drone circled in the sky above Minneapolis. Some 20,000ft below, ...
Imagine this unlikely scenario: the President of the United States of America is a charlatan; he talks a lot, or rather ...
Nicola Shulman salutes the memoirs of an old-school editor and socialite; Rebecca Fraser discusses an unexpectedly peaceful transition of power in seventeenth-century America Toby Lichtig travels to ...
What a peculiar book this is. Peter York, best known for his cod-anthropological examination of British society’s various snobby tribes, The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook (1982), has turned his ...
Most of us would rather not think about death – our own or that of others. It is one of the most invisible, suppressed, negated and denied facts of life. Yet it will eventually and inevitably catch up ...
Does it matter who wrote the books we love? I was recently asked to talk about Elsa Morante (1912–85) at the Italian Cultural Institute in London. The idea was to present her fiction in a celebration ...
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