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- Ways of Listening · 1 sa 2 dk‘Music is both too difficult and too easy to access,’ Nicholas Spice wrote recently in the LRB, ‘and it seems that we have opted to stick with ease over difficulty.’ On this…
- 'Autumn Journal' by Louis MacNeice · 37 dkIn Autumn Journal, his long 1938 poem, Louis MacNeice took many of the ideals shared by other young writers of his time – a desire for relevance, responsiveness and, above all…
- Gaza and the Forever War · 1 sa 25 dkIt’s been more than three years since Hamas launched its attack on southern Israel, and Israel responded with a war of annihilation in Gaza that human rights organisations and…
- On Politics: Can the UK economy ever change? · 1 sa 19 dkDespite Andy Burnham’s declared ambition to end forty years of neoliberalism, the first budget under his leadership was limited to cautious measures focused on cost-of-living…
- How Prediction Markets Work · 1 sa 0 dkAccording to their boosters, prediction markets such as Polymarket or Kalshi are ‘global truth machines’; their detractors say they’re just a glorified form of gambling. Either…
- Ulysses: James Joyce's properly obscene book · 54 dkTom McCarthy, writing in the LRB, described James Joyce's Ulysses as a ‘heavy book, a book full of weight, a fallen book’; a ‘properly obscene book’; ‘a book in which the central…
- How Fredric Jameson became Fredric Jameson · 53 dkPerry Anderson once wrote that in Fredric Jameson’s account of postmodernism, ‘the vocation of Western Marxism has reached its most complete consummation.’ Praising the ‘spacious…
- Who were the English? · 33 dkFor decades after the Roman legions left Britain in the early fifth century, people expected them sooner or later to return. ‘During this bizarre interregnum,’ Pablo Scheffer…
- On Politics: What is political writing? · 57 dkIn What is literature? (1948) Jean-Paul Sartre argued that writers and artists have a responsibility to engage with political and social realities. But is it still possible for…
- Fascism in a time of AI · 54 dkSince Trump first took office in 2016 there has been a debate on the left as to whether he and other authoritarian right-wing leaders, such as Viktor Orbán and Narendra Modi…
- An Alternative History of the Microphone · 47 dkThe first microphones were invented in the 1870s as components for telephones. By the 1930s, politicians as unalike as FDR and Hitler were using microphones as both audio devices…
- On Politics: What happened to the intellectual? · 1 sa 7 dkWilliam Davies joins James to consider what distinguishes intellectuals from the technocrats, academics, experts, polemicists, thought leaders, gurus and utopians who compete for…
- What’s the point of literary criticism? · 37 dkAs universities are cutting English degree programmes and ever fewer people are taking English A-level, Colin Burrow isn't the only one asking ‘what’s the point of literary…
- On Politics: Germany's Far-Right Future? · 1 sa 4 dkOn Sunday, the far-right party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) won the state election in Saxony-Anhalt with 44 per cent of the vote, the highest share for any far-right party…
- The Romantic History of the Bayeux Tapestry · 60 dkThe story of why, and how, an arrow ended up in Harold's eye in the Bayeux Tapestry is tied to the politics of the early 19th century, to Napoleon's ambitions and Britain's…
- Roman Scandinavia · 35 dkIn the late 160s AD, the Roman armies of Marcus Aurelius recruited large numbers of troops from the islands east of Jutland, in what is now Denmark. After Marcus’ death in 180…
- Travel with Close Readings: ‘Invisible Cities’ by Italo Calvino · 1 sa 37 dkItalo Calvino’s novella Invisible Cities is a hypnagogic reimagining of Marco Polo’s time in the court of Kublai Khan. Polo describes 55 impossible places – cities made of…
- Seamus Perry: Pluralism and the Modern Poet · 1 sa 19 dkMany thinkers have characterised modernity by its investment in the idea of pluralism, ‘of things being various’, in Louis MacNeice’s phrase. How do the virtues of plurality and…
- Travel with Close Readings: ‘The Portrait of a Lady’ by Henry James · 1 sa 11 dkIn The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James borrows from Eliot, Austen, folktales and potboilers, but ‘the thing that he took from nowhere was Isabel Archer’. James transformed the…
- Adam Shatz: Visions of America · 56 dk‘The very word “America” remains a new, almost completely undefined and extremely controversial proper noun,’ James Baldwin wrote in 1959. ‘No one in the world seems to know…
- Travel with Close Readings: Byron’s ‘Don Juan’ · 1 sa 53 dkFew poets have had the courage (or inclination) to rhyme ‘Plato’ with ‘potato’, ‘intellectual’ with ‘hen-peck’d you all’ or ‘Acropolis’ with ‘Constantinople is’. Byron does all…
- Amia Srinivasan: The Impossible Patient · 1 sa 2 dkNot for the first time, theorists of politics are turning to the unconscious and its strange workings – repression and fantasy, libido and death drive, disavowal and displacement…
- Travel with Close Readings: ‘The Prelude’ (Books 9 and 10) by William Wordsworth · 48 dkWordsworth was not unusual among Romantic poets for his enthusiastic support of the French Revolution, but he stands apart from his contemporaries for actually being there to see…
- Adam Tooze: Electrostates, Petrostates and the New Cold War · 1 sa 15 dkChina is racing ahead in electrification, while the US turns its back on green energy in favour of a new era of fossil fuel machismo. An alignment between the three major…
- Travel with Close Readings: ‘The Travels of Sir John Mandeville’ · 1 sa 2 dkTo continue our summer of travel with Close Readings, Irina Dumitrescu and Mary Wellesley look at the medieval bestseller The Travels of Sir John Mandeville. The fictional…
- The long history of Black voter suppression in the US · 1 sa 1 dk In April this year, the US Supreme Court struck down Louisiana's voting map on the grounds that state lawmakers had violated the constitution by creating a second district with…
- On Politics: Burnham’s First Week · 1 sa 6 dkAndy Burnham’s early promises to end rough sleeping and sort out social care won’t surprise anyone who’s followed his political career, but his apparent interest in the…
- Nolan v. Homer · 52 dkIt could be argued that Christopher Nolan has been remaking the Odyssey for his whole career, and his latest film revisits many of the themes of his earlier movies, as once again…
- Palantir and the NHS · 47 dkThe US tech giant Palantir ‘holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds in everything from financial regulation to local government’, Peter Geoghegan and Lucas…
- On Politics: The US at 250 · 1 sa 8 dkWould the Founding Fathers recognise the modern United States as the republic they declared in 1776? The nation formed from Britain’s North American colonies has become the most…
- Poetry and the Turning World: Money · 1 sa 30 dkIn the sixth episode of their series, Sarah and Sandeep look at poems that explore the complexities of money and its metaphorical power: Frederick Seidel’s ‘In Late December’…
- Among the Private Spies · 38 dkThe Trump-Russia dossier, leaked to the press in 2017, contained multiple allegations of collusion between the US president and Putin, including reports of meetings between…
- Poetry and the Turning World: Food · 1 sa 23 dkThe most popular modern food poem is probably William Carlos Williams’s ‘This Is Just to Say’, in which the speaker confesses to eating the plums his wife was saving for…
- On Politics: The Andy Burnham Show · 1 sa 7 dkAndy Burnham will soon become the UK’s seventh prime minister since 2010 and will face many of the same problems that defeated his predecessors, not least the UK’s stubbornly…
- Poetry and the Turning World: Weather · 1 sa 14 dkIn Wordsworth’s 1807 description of ‘golden daffodils’, the breeze animates both the scene and the inner life of the speaker. Like many poets, Wordsworth turned to the weather to…
- World Cup Cupidity · 51 dk‘The beautiful game has never looked more beautiful on the pitch, or more ugly off it,’ Simon Skinner writes in the latest LRB. Each World Cup seems more tainted by corruption…
- Poetry and the Turning World: Divorce · 1 sa 18 dkPoets have always written about love, but the divorce poem is a much more recent subgenre. In this episode, Sarah and Sandeep ask if the formal processes of legal separation can…
- On Politics: What went wrong with HS2 (and almost everything else) · 1 sa 4 dkHS2 was conceived at a cost of £37.5 billion and originally supposed to link London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. It will now connect only two stations outside London and…
- Poetry and the Turning World: Technology · 1 sa 30 dkWhen Robert Browning was asked to become the first poet to be recorded, on an Edison wax cylinder in 1889, he forgot his own poem. In the second episode of their series, Sarah…
- Poetry and the Turning World: Work · 1 sa 4 dkIs writing a poem work? In the first episode of their series exploring the ways in which poetry responds to our personal and collective challenges, Sarah Howe and Sandeep Parmar…
- On Politics: Myths of Populism · 1 sa 12 dkThe transformations of European politics over the past twenty years, including Britain’s vote to leave the EU and the rise of post-Soviet strongmen, are often explained as part…
- Jane Austen's ‘Emma’ and the art of misreading · 1 sa 8 dkWhat kind of satirist was Jane Austen? Her earliest writings follow firmly in the footsteps of ‘Tristram Shandy’ in their deployment of heightened sentiment as a tool for…
- Gaza after the Ceasefire · 1 sa 9 dkSince the announcement of a ceasefire in Gaza six months ago, 904 Palestinians have been killed and more than 2700 wounded by the Israeli army. Last week, Trump’s Board of Peace…
- A Rough Guide to Money Laundering · 46 dkMore than 90 per cent of transactions in the UK are now cashless, yet there is more cash in circulation than ever before. In the UK, there’s about £1300 circulating for every…
- When will AI replace us? · 43 dkIs AI taking us into a world where computer programmers, and perhaps the rest of us too, are obsolete? And if so, how quickly is it taking us there? Paul Taylor has been looking…
- On Politics: A New Era for UK Politics · 1 sa 4 dkIn the wake of last week’s devolved and local elections, Keir Starmer is once again fighting for his political future. Labour has almost completely vanished in Wales, came a…
- On Politics: The Fall of Orbán, the Rise of Magyar · 1 sa 5 dkFor more than a decade, Viktor Orbán has stood alongside Trump and Modi as a global figurehead for authoritarian nationalism, and an inspiration to popular strongmen everywhere…
- James Lasdun's road trip to America's courts · 50 dk‘Courtroom encounters present you with only a fragment of a person’s story, from which you may or may not be inclined to infer the rest,’ James Lasdun wrote recently in the LRB…
- On Politics: The Pope and the President · 1 sa 1 dkWhen commenting on the power and influence of the Catholic Church, Stalin is supposed to have asked: ‘how many divisions has the pope?’ Donald Trump has yet to question how many…
- The War in Lebanon · 48 dkLebanese and Israeli delegations met in Washington this week for their first direct talks in 33 years. On 15 April, with talks underway, the IDF’s chief of staff, Eyal Zamir…
