2010年2月5日 · A t a canteen in Leningrad in December 1941, a man queued for two hours, handed over his ration card, received a bowl of soup and a bowl of porridge, ate the soup and died. A crowd formed around him, not out of concern but in the hope of acquiring extra food. Leningrad under siege was a pitiless place. Two in five people succumbed in the first winter and the streets were littered with...

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2025年1月27日 · Hamas: The Quest for Power by Beverley Milton-Edwards and Stephen Farrell. Polity, 331 pp., £17.99, June 2024, 978 1 5095 6493 4

Letters Matthew Barr, Neil Foxlee, Nick Hewlett, Iain Hampsher-Monk, Paul Sutton, Victor Lloret Blackburn, Gilbert Wong, Jean-Jacques Portail, Barry Schwabsky T.J. Clark A Brief Guide to Trump and the Spectacle Matt Foot Short Cuts: Failures at the CCRC Jackson Lears

4 天之前 · Links to the 52 (actually 53!) pieces that comprise the alphabetical tour this year’s LRB Diary takes through London’s streets: from Keats to the Krays, Woolf to Windrush, the YBAs to the GLC, by writers including Peter Campbell, Jenny Diski, Paul Foot, Andrew O’Hagan, Rosemary Hill, John Lanchester, Hilary Mantel, Mendez, Ian Penman, Katherine Rundell, Sukhdev Sandhu and Iain Sinclair.

2024年12月26日 · Neal Ascherson notes that Marcel Ophuls’s The Sorrow and the Pity, a myth-busting documentary about the Occupation released in 1969, was ‘banned by shocked broadcasting authorities’.In fact, the ORTF – the national agency responsible for providing French broadcasting services at the time – had no involvement in its production and simply refused to buy rights to the film, which was co ...

On one level, Mansfield Park is a fairytale transposed to the 19th century: Fanny Price is the archetypal poor relation who, through her virtuousness, wins a wealthy husband. But Jane Austen’s 1814 novel is also a shrewd study of speculation, ‘improvement’ and the transformative power of money. Colin Burrow joins Clare and Tom to discuss Austen’s acute reading of property and precarity ...

Hospitality, Volume 2 by Jacques Derrida, edited by Pascale-Anne Brault and Peggy Kamuf, translated by Peggy Kamuf. Chicago, 261 pp., £36, April 2024, 978 0 226 83130 5

Exit Wounds: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence across the Border by Ieva Jusionyte. California, 333 pp., £24, April 2024, 978 0 520 39595 4