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Issa Sikiti da Silva
The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of ...
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In the Print Shop
Tombs Ltd, the New Zealand print shop where I served a small part of an apprenticeship that would have made me a compositor. ...
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Leatherface Reflects
The world has been Surrealist for a hundred years, though the adjective that people turn to in trying to describe ...
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Technically Leading
The Archbishop of Canterbury announced his resignation last month, five days after the publication of an ...
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Emily Witt: Garth Greenwell’s ‘Small Rain’
Jefferson Hope’s condition seems similar to the one that threatens the unnamed narrator of Garth Greenwell’s Small Rain, ...
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Trusting the Trustees
In the early stages of the Covid pandemic, Captain Tom Moore decided to try to raise £1000 for the NHS by walking up and down ...
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If Life Went Widdershins
In 1848, Louis Pasteur looked at tiny grains of a salt under a magnifying glass and was able to distinguish two crystal forms. They looked almost identical – but not quite. The two crystals had a ...
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Outside the Work
I dreamt of walking out of a landscape as if out of a painting – tipped from the picture by its tilting fields.
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The French word for rape is viol. It signals the violence and violation inherent to the acts it names. Since early September, Dominique Pelicot, a 71-year-old Frenchman, has been on trial in Avignon ...