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WEBJoanna Biggs. ove,’ Alain Badiou wrote, ‘is the minimal form of communism.’. In communism for two or for two billion, the way the gulf between people narrows is of great interest: both scenarios seem to involve mysterious and transformative forces. I remembered Badiou’s formulation when I heard Sally Rooney describe the genesis of her ...
About the LRB - London Review of Books
WEBThe London Review of Books is Europe’s leading magazine of culture and ideas.Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of the world’s best writers to explore a wide variety of subjects in exhilarating detail – from art and politics to science and technology via history and philosophy, not to mention fiction and poetry.In the age of the long read, the LRB remains the pre ...
I thought you were incredible - London Review of Books
WEBNov 16, 2023 · The relationship between Taylor and Clift was one of the most important of her life, off screen and on (Suddenly, Last Summer was their last film together).Clift was the first of many gay or bisexual men she loved; and the first person to show her that film acting could be worth doing for its own sake rather than for money or fame or contractual obligations to a studio.
Ferdinand Mount · Ruthless and Truthless: Rotten Government
WEBMay 6, 2021 · Ferdinand Mount, discussing the mores of that well-known classicist Boris Johnson, is impressed by the number of words in Classical Greek that are compounds of pseude – a ‘lie’ (LRB, 6 May).Modern Greek is just as enjoyable, with the Oxford Greek Dictionary giving us, for example, Ψευτοφυλλαδα (‘pseudofillatha’) – a ‘lying newspaper’, useful for describing Johnson ...
Jenny Turner · Diary: The Deborah Orr I Knew - London Review of …
WEBI was a member of the original City Limits collective and one of those responsible for organising the initial financing of the magazine. Jenny Turner writes in her elegiac appreciation of Deborah Orr that the magazine had been ‘kept afloat, really, by a grant from Ken Livingstone and John McDonnell’s GLC’ (LRB, 20 February).The Greater London Council’s contribution to City Limits wasn ...
Why should we think about the Revolutions of 1848 now?
WEBMar 7, 2019 · Not all the conclusions reached about new forms of political legitimacy after the 1848 Revolutions were as benevolent as those Christopher Clark identifies (LRB, 7 March).King Louis Philippe of France, deposed in February that year after his soldiers fired into a crowd, watched from exile as the new government brutally put down radical uprisings in June and mused, ‘Republics are lucky: they ...
Bee Wilson · Like a Bar of Soap: Work, don’t play - London Review …
WEBDec 15, 2022 · I f there was one thing Maria Montessori hated, it was play. She also disapproved of toys, fairy tales and fantasy. This came as a surprise to me. I had the impression – from the hippyish reputation of modern Montessori schools – that the essence of the Montessori method was ‘learning through play’.
Steven Shapin · Loose Talk: Atomic Secrets
WEBVol. 43 No. 22 · 18 November 2021. Steven Shapin is right that the Manhattan Project ‘was a very great secret’, but it was kept haphazardly (LRB, 4 November). My late father, Major Tom Bird of the Rifle Brigade, was a desert veteran who served as aide-de-camp to Field Marshal ‘Jumbo’ Wilson in Washington in 1945.
Seamus Heaney · Poem: ‘Changes’ - London Review of Books
WEBSep 18, 1980 · Seamus Heaney. 167 words. As you came with me in silence. to the pump in the long grass. I heard much that you could not hear: the bite of the spade that sank it, the slithering and grumble. as the mason mixed …
David Runciman · But how? Capitalist Democracy - London Review …
WEBMar 30, 2023 · David Runciman teaches politics at Cambridge. His books include Political Hypocrisy: The Mask of Power, from Hobbes to Orwell and Beyond, How Democracy Ends and Confronting Leviathan: A History of Ideas.He has written more than a hundred pieces for the LRB on subjects including Lance Armstrong, gambling, all three volumes of Charles Moore’s biography of Thatcher, Donald Trump’s election ...