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Love’s Work is the ‘existential drama’ of a postwar Jewish British woman philosopher, born in London in 1947, who reads books, sits in meetings, falls in love, falls ill, faces death.But it also constructs a highly wrought and interlocking pattern of images and emblems which whoosh you, if you let them, right into the middle of ‘the trauma within reason itself’.
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The Searchers: Five Rebels, Their Dream of a Different Britain and Their Many Enemies by Andy Beckett. Allen Lane, 540 pp., £30, May, 978 0 241 39422 9
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2024年10月30日 · Matthew Bevis writes astutely about Hardy’s complex relation to women (LRB, 10 October).However he overlooks Robert Gittings’s biography Young Thomas Hardy from 1975, which includes some fascinating detail about an experience the 16-year-old Hardy had that might have been the genesis of the intermingling of sex and death in his imagination. In Dorchester on 9 August 1856, he witnessed the ...
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Six weeks after the start of the Second World War, the British government lifted the colour bar on military recruitment. But the announcement, on 19 October 1939, made clear that the change in policy would last only for the duration of the war. The air force recruited six thousand West Indians. The army and navy, however, claimed that Black ...
Vol. 44 No. 7 · 7 April 2022 - London Review of Books
Lartigue: The Boy and the Belle Époque by Louise Baring. Thames and Hudson, 192 pp., £28, April 2020, 978 0 500 02130 9
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Last Loosening: A Handbook for the Con Artist and Those Aspiring to Become One by Walter Serner, translated by Mark Kanak. Twisted Spoon Press, 189 pp., £15, July, 978 80 86264 45 5
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The Long and Short. For the third series of their ‘revolutionary *****’ (The Times) discussions, Mark Ford and Seamus Perry consider the long poem and the short story. Europe’s leading magazine of ideas, published twice a month. Book reviews and essays (and much more online) renowned for their fearlessness, range and elegance.