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WEBByzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender and Race in the Middle Ages by Roland Betancourt. Princeton, 274 pp., £28, March 2023, 978 0 691 24354 2
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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 ...
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WEB9 August 2024. Colin Burrow and Clare Bucknell look at Jane Austen’s use of the words ‘interest’ and ‘interesting’ and the significance of women reading in her novels in this extract from their podcast series ‘On Satire’. Bookshop Events & Films.
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WEBSep 11, 2024 · James Butler, Rebecca Howe & Rowan Williams: Love’s Work. 10 July 2024. To mark the publication of a new edition of Gillian Rose’s Love’s Work, the hosted a discussion of Rose’s masterpiece and its legacy, featuring James Butler, Rebekah Howes and the former Archbishop...
Ian Penman · Four Moptop Yobbos - London Review of Books
WEBJun 17, 2021 · The rubble had been cleared away, but strange grasses and wild herbs had sprung up where the war-demolished houses had been. Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington O n the opening page of Craig Brown’s One Two Three Four, Brian Epstein and his personal assistant, Alistair Taylor, behold the Beatles for the very first time.It is November 1961, in a ‘dank and damp and smelly’ Liverpool ...
Hal Foster · After the White Cube - London Review of Books
WEBMar 19, 2015 · Hal Foster asks what art museums are for. Tate Modern II , designed by Herzog and de Meuron, is now rising on the Thames. On the Hudson the new Whitney Museum, conceived by Renzo Piano, will open its doors in May. Guided by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the Museum of Modern Art is planning another …
Paul Theroux · Diary: My Gaggle - London Review of Books
WEBJun 20, 2019 · I have spent the greater part of my life, more than fifty years, doing what I am doing now, writing in ink on a lined white pad, hoping not to be interrupted, alone and grateful for my solitude. Weekends are a waiting period, most uninvited talk (the phone, repairmen, Jehovah’s Witnesses) drives me to distraction; national holidays are an annoyance, vacations – when I am unable to avoid ...
Colm Tóibín · I haven’t been I: The Real Fernando Pessoa
WEBAug 12, 2021 · Colm Tóibín. by Richard Zenith. As he grew older, Fernando Pessoa became less visible, as though he were inexorably being subsumed by dreams and shadows. The French translator and scholar Pierre Hourcade, who visited Lisbon in 1933, remembered leaving a café with Pessoa, and walking with him for a few blocks.