Sophie Smith · Sleeping Women: On the Pelicot trial
Dec 26, 2024 · T he 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 …
London Review of Books
Feb 5, 2010 · B ook titles are like city buses: they bunch up and arrive in packs. When historians were obsessed with identity, collective nouns proliferated: Citizens (1989), Britons (1992), …
Archive · Volume 47, 2025 - London Review of Books
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Letters - lrb.co.uk
Dec 26, 2024 · Bill Lancaster mentions his friend John Walton’s search for the first fish and chip shop in England and that he discovered a likely candidate in the East End (Letters, 24 …
Contents · Vol. 46 No. 24 · 26 December 2024
The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham by Lucy Hughes-Hallett. Fourth Estate, 630 pp., £30, October 2024, 978 0 00 812655 1
Devorah Baum | ‘Alice’
Nov 25, 2024 · On Monday, 30 September, the LRB in partnership with MUBI screened Jan Švankmajer’s film ‘Alice’ at the Garden Cinema as the latest in a series of events exploring the …
Conversations in Philosophy: 'Fear and Trembling' by Søren …
The series begins with Søren Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling (1843), an exploration of faith through the story of Abraham and Isaac.Like most of Kierkegaard’s published work, Fear and …
LRB Blog
In response to attacks by warring guerrilla factions that have killed dozens of people and displaced tens of thousands in north-east Colombia, President Gustavo Petro has declared an …
Fara Dabhoiwala · A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams …
In 1687, Newton’s Principia had put forward a revolutionary new hypothesis that eventually transformed science – a unified theory of motion, and of gravity, the invisible force that …
Linda Kinstler
A court summons arrived in December, alerting me that I had been selected for ‘special jury service’. An accompanying letter explained that the trial would be held at the court for the …