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Here's a thread answering this question on how to shop on a budget. 🧵

⚡Russian forces damaging ancient burial mounds in Ukraine, research suggests. kyivindependent.com/russian-forces…

Out now: a new LRB audiobook, 𝘉𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘳: 𝘚𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘰𝘻𝘢 𝘵𝘰 𝘚𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘳𝘦 by Jonathan Rée, exploring the lives of some of the most influential thinkers of the past four hundred years. Listen to the first chapter on the pod: lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-v…

Congratulations to authors & translators longlisted for the 2024 National Translation Awards. You can read excerpts from both longlisted translations from Arabic on @ArabLit: arablit.org/2024/09/05/tra…

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Corfu Literary Festival 16th to 22nd September 2024 This is our 7th year and YES it's lucky for us - we have a stupendous line up of speakers & the sun will be shining See you on the Liston..... 💚🌿💚🌿💚🌿💚🌿

Do you remember growing up with the constant threat of school shootings? I don't. Most Gen X and millennials don't. So no, they aren't a "fact of life," JD Vance.

Everything is connected:

Startling. A decline in bats was linked to an increase in human infant mortality:

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Peacock brothers, yes, your new tail feathers growing in and sticking out in awkward ways do make you look ridiculous.

Honored and tickled to be in such excellent company here in this 2024 Best American Poetry anthology edited by the wonderful Mary Jo Salter:

Fancy being here in 10 days time? Books, film, debate, sparkling speakers, gorgeous venues, iced frappe coffees, warm balmy evenings, chilled Corfu Beer Ltd., glittering seas and delicious 🇬🇷 food in the BEST company.... Ahhh Corfu, you beauty

Russia’s border regions began to form volunteer forces to fight Ukraine’s four week-old counter-invasion in Kursk, but Ukrainian C-in-C Syrskyi said the Kursk counter-invasion was working, because it had effectively stalled Russia’s advance to Pokrovsk (Pls use link in bio).

Word of the day is ‘struthious’ (18th century): prone to ignoring unwelcome facts and letting a situation worsen without any intervention. From the Latin for ‘ostrich-like’.

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Last minute ‘Well done!’ present for the person in your life running The Great North Run GreatNorthRunCulture on Sunday. For about six quid, from bookshops, gift shops, museums, gallery shops and similar. Candlestick Press

#Byron200 The 2024 Keats-Shelley and Young Romantics Prizes Are Open! As in previous years, there are two competitions: The Keats-Shelley Prize, which is open to all, and the Young Romantics Prize, aimed at anyone aged between 16-18. Find out more here: bit.ly/3MCS5GJ

Tim Walz on Gaza threads.net/@yasharali/pos…