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Slightly late to this but reading Azadeh Moaveni’s comprehensive and exceptional piece in the London Review of Books on sexual violence in wartime. This isn’t news, but it’s astounding how media outlets find the violation of some bodies more objectionable than others. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…
On the folly of expecting capitalism to clean up its own mess with the same toolkit that created it.
Would be keen to see a Daniela Gabor response in the letters, but I think it is good and not before time to see a more serious and public discussion.
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‘In Twain’s novels, slaves are freed out of Christian charity – someone remembers them in a will. Everett’s plots are more likely to hinge on the use of firearms.’
Deborah Friedell reads Percival Everett’s retelling of 𝘏𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘭𝘦𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘍𝘪𝘯𝘯: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…
'It suited almost everyone after Mussolini's fall from power in 1943 to blame him personally for the disasters of the war'
Prof John Foot (BristolItalian) questions Italy's national memory of the Second World War in a new piece for the London Review of Books
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‘The crimes set out in the Rome Charter and in customary law all concern attacks on civilians. In its assault on Gaza Israel has committed many of the same potential crimes as the Hamas operatives.’
Conor Gearty on the ICC, from November: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/…
The Past Present Future podcast concludes its series on the history of bad ideas with a look at Mesmerism. Helen Lewis and David Runciman explore what can it tell us about twenty-first century phenomena from online social contagion to hypnotherapy. Listen here: linktr.ee/ppfideas
‘A complete shield would have weighed up to 10 kg, and there’s a wooden replica that visitors are invited to lift: I wouldn’t want to march twenty miles carrying it.’
Thomas Jones visits ‘Legion: Life in the Roman Army’ at the British Museum: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…
EVENTS THIS WEEK!
TONIGHT: London Review of Books Screen X MUBI: Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One w/ Marina Warner, at The Garden Cinema lrb.me/screen
WED: Lucy Sante in conversation w/ Juliet Jacques, at the Bookshop lrb.me/pu3
A splendid and brilliantly-written (as ever, we're talking Jonathan Meades here) review of Gavin Stamp's 'Interwar'
C20 Society London Review of Books
#architecture
Higher Ordinariness lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…