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Emily Witt: Garth Greenwell’s ‘Small Rain’
Jefferson Hope’s condition seems similar to the one that threatens the unnamed narrator of Garth Greenwell’s Small Rain, ...
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Issa Sikiti da Silva
One of the only ways for foreign correspondents to get into Mali now is to rely on the services of human smugglers, as ...
London Review of Books1d
Andrew O’Hagan: Isherwood’s Artifice
Though he enjoyed a spell as Auden and Isherwood’s ambassador in London, he resented Isherwood’s use of their Berlin years in ...
London Review of Books1d
In the Print Shop
Tombs Ltd, the New Zealand print shop where I served a small part of an apprenticeship that would have made me a compositor. ...
London Review of Books9d
If Life Went Widdershins
While normal life must compete with a whole ecosystem, a mirror bacterium might behave like the only real thing in ...
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Leatherface Reflects
The world has been Surrealist for a hundred years, though the adjective that people turn to in trying to describe ...
London Review of Books9d
Outside the Work
I dreamt of walking out of a landscape as if out of a painting – tipped from the picture by its tilting fields.
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Use your theodolite
Daniel Defoe , in his Tour thro’ the Whole Island of Great Britain (1724-26), was unimpressed by the prehistoric remains.
London Review of Books8d
Trusting the Trustees
In the early stages of the Covid pandemic, Captain Tom Moore decided to try to raise £1000 for the NHS by walking up and down ...
London Review of Books4d
Issa Sikiti da Silva
One of the only ways for foreign correspondents to get into Mali now is to rely on the services of human smugglers, as I did a few weeks ago. A former journalist turned fixer told me there were ‘no ...