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Podcast: Emily Wilson and Thomas Jones · Among the Ancients II: Pindar and Bacchylides
14+ hour, 31+ min ago —...This week’s Great Political Fiction is Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and... ...other podcast apps: lrb.me/closereadings Armed with the diary, Tam Dalyell...
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Bruce Robbins | At Columbia
3+ day ago —...When Minouche Shafik, the president of Columbia University, testified... ...before the House of Representatives on 17 April, she didn’t fall... ...Palestine and, the icing on the cake, Jewish Voice for Peace.... ...Muslim and Jewish students who were protesting against the bombing...
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Terry Eagleton · Where does culture come from?
1+ week ago —...In Jude the Obscure, Jude Fawley finds himself living in Beersheba... ..., the area of Oxford we know as Jericho, home at the time to a community... ...King Lear is much concerned with this ambiguity.... ...in cold climates, but they don't have to be designed by Stella McCartney...
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John Kerrigan · Wobbly, I am: Famous Seamus
1+ week ago —...Mahon from Magdalen College, Oxford.... ...Towards the end of 1997, Seamus Heaney wrote to his friend Derek... ...Christopher Reid, the editor of this weighty selection of Heaney’... ...the Kilkenny Magazine to the Faber list, and then invited to speak...
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Tim Parks · Eaten Alive by a Vicious Cat: On Hisham Matar
1+ week ago —...Hisham Matar doesn’t need to look far for his subject matter.... ...As a result Matar’s education in the UK – first at boarding school... ...The narrator, Khaled Abd al Hady, is saying what seems a final goodbye... ...mosque, where the BBC journalist Mohammed Mustafa Ramadan was killed...
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Christopher Siwicki · At the Capitoline Museums: ‘Fidia’
1+ week ago —...Fidia, at the Capitoline Museums in Rome until 5 May, is the first... ...exhibition dedicated to the Athenian sculptor Phidias, celebrated... ...Phidias is sometimes cast as a works supervisor, project manager... ...Athens came to dominate the Aegean Sea....
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Frances Webber · Short Cuts: No Safe Routes
4+ week ago —...In February 2015 Shamima Begum and two friends left East London for... ...Syria, where they joined Islamic State.... ...The Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) endorsed the decision... ...(The fate of her two friends, Amira Abase and Kadiza Sultana, isn't...
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Philip Knox · At the Bodleian: ‘Chaucer Here and Now’
4+ week ago —...‘Chaucer Here and Now’ One of the frustrating things about Chaucer... ...There are a handful of allusions to Chaucer in literary sources before... ...from the National Library of Wales to the Bodleian Library and is... ...early 15th-century copy of Troilus and Criseyde belonging to Corpus Christi...
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Podcast: Half a Million Sheep Can't Be Wrong
3+ week ago —...Briefing in the Oval Office on April 5, 1982’/White House Television... ...War – The Untold Story’/ITV/Yorkshire Television, ‘Leach, Henry... ...app, available now from the App Store for Apple devices, Google... ...Download the LRB app Read anywhere with the London Review of Books...
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Podcast: Introducing: ‘The Belgrano Diary’
3+ week ago —...Briefing in the Oval Office on April 5, 1982’/White House Television... ...War – The Untold Story’/ITV/Yorkshire Television, ‘Leach, Henry... ...This week’s Great Political Fiction is Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and... ...War: Recordings from the Archive/BBC Worldwide, Parliamentary Recording...