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Love’s Work is the ‘existential drama’ of a postwar Jewish British woman philosopher, born in London in 1947, who reads books, sits in meetings, falls in love, falls ill, faces death.But it also constructs a highly wrought and interlocking pattern of images and emblems which whoosh you, if you let them, right into the middle of ‘the trauma within reason itself’.
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The Searchers: Five Rebels, Their Dream of a Different Britain and Their Many Enemies by Andy Beckett. Allen Lane, 540 pp., £30, May, 978 0 241 39422 9
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Ruairí Casey. ‘Noonday Rest’ by Mohammed al-Hawajri, after Jean-François Millet. The parliamentary resolution, entitled ‘Never again is now: Protecting, preserving and strengthening Jewish life in Germany’, was jointly conceived by the three governing parties and the opposition Christian Democrats. Hours after Olaf Scholz sacked his ...
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Why should we think about the Revolutions of 1848 now?
Mar 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 ...
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Oct 30, 2024 — On Binyavanga Wainaina. 23 October 2024. Jeremy Harding joins Tom to discuss How to Write about Africa, a posthumous collection of essays and stories by Binyavanga Wainaina, one of postcolonial Africa’s great anglophone satirists.
Salman Rushdie · Imaginary Homelands - London Review of Books
Oct 7, 1982 — Salman Rushdie. An old photograph in a cheap frame hangs on a wall of the room where I work. It’s a picture, dating from 1946, of a house into which, at the time of its taking, I had not yet been born. The house is rather peculiar – a three-storied gabled affair with tiled roofs and round towers in two corners, each wearing a pointy tile hat.