Two Weeks in Beirut
London Review of Books
by Stefan Tarnowski
21h ago
On Friday, 27 September, we felt the whole of Beirut shake. A huge plume of smoke was visible across the city. Israeli jets had dropped more than ..read more
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Bombs fall, armies move
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by Des Freedman
21h ago
When Israel bombarded Beirut on 27 September, killing hundreds of people, the BBC headline was ‘Beirut rocked by multiple blasts’. ITV News had ..read more
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Sonic Tirade
London Review of Books
by Philip Clark
6d ago
According to their publicity material, the Tokyo-based duo Incapacitants deploy feedback, vocals and ‘various electronics’ to generate noise for ..read more
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Acting Upstream
London Review of Books
by Michael Chessum
1w ago
Labour members have long used the party conference to push for a more humanitarian approach to immigration and asylum. In Liverpool this week, however ..read more
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Peter Green 1924-2024
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1w ago
Peter Green died last week at the age of 99. His many books include a Life of Alexander of Macedon, a history of the Hellenistic age, an account of ..read more
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‘Slave Play’
London Review of Books
by M.G. Zimeta
1w ago
Slave Play, which ended its West End run at the Noël Coward Theatre last week, is a play by Jeremy O. Harris about three Black people who are ..read more
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Fredric Jameson 1934-2024
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by The Editors
1w ago
Fredric Jameson died yesterday at the age of 90. He had taught since 1985 at Duke University. His many books include The Political Unconscious ..read more
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The Pager Attack
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by Adam Shatz
2w ago
It’s hard to see how Nasrallah’s prudence will survive the pager and short-wave radio attacks of this week, which have killed at least 37 people ..read more
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Brazil Burning
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by Forrest Hylton
2w ago
Following a prolonged drought, smoke from wildfires in the Amazon basin is choking people over an enormous swath of territory in Brazil, Uruguay ..read more
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Elias Khoury 1948-2024
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2w ago
The Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury died yesterday at the age of 76. When his early book The Little Mountain (1977) was translated into English in ..read more
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