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Dec 26, 2024 · They came from Florida, from Fox News and Fox Business, square-jawed men and women with big hair and collagen lips. They came from professional football and World Wrestling Entertainment. They came from daytime talk shows and reality television. They were ‘straight out of central casting’, as the future president said.
Contents · Vol. 46 No. 24 · 26 December 2024
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Letters - lrb.co.uk
Dec 26, 2024 · Both Stephen Allen and Robin Kinross overlook that the reason books come to have waves on the fore-edge is that high-speed printing and binding involve setting the ink and drying the glue with heat, and not enough time is allowed for the paper to condition during these operations (Letters, 21 November and 5 December). This means that the cockling that is inevitable stays with the paper, which ...
Sophie Smith · Sleeping Women: On the Pelicot trial
Dec 26, 2024 · 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 for repeatedly drugging his wife, Gisèle, and raping her as she slept. He is also charged with inviting at least 72 other men into their home to do the same, on 92 occasions between July 2011 and ...
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Alice Hunt · The Unfortunate Posset: Your Majesty’s Dog
Dec 26, 2024 · For Mendoza , the ambitious courtier in John Marston’s The Malcontent (1603), being in favour is ‘delicious heaven’; he is quite ‘drunk’ with it. Walter Raleigh pined like a spurned lover when Elizabeth I turned her attentions to the Earl of Essex. George Villiers, first duke of Buckingham, told James VI and I that what they enjoyed together was ‘more affection than between lovers ...
Edmund Gordon · Weird Things in the Sky: Are we alone?
Dec 26, 2024 · People have been seeing weird things in the sky since the beginning of recorded history, but popular fascination with...
Podcast: Emily Wilson and Thomas Jones · Close Readings: Marcus …
Jan 13, 2025 · This week on the LRB Podcast, a free episode from one of our Close Readings series. For their final conversation Among the Ancients, Emily and Tom turn to the contradictions of the Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius. Said by Machiavelli to be the last of the ‘five good emperors’ who ruled Rome for most of the second century CE, Marcus oversaw devastating wars on the ...
Linda Kinstler - lrb.co.uk
Linda Kinstler’s first book, Come to This Court and Cry, was published in 2022.