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- ‘Odesa is mostly Russian-speaking and sometimes thought to be more pro-Russian than other parts of Ukraine, but there isn’t a straightforward link between language and loyalty.’ Aid worker Samuel Hanafin reports from southern Ukraine. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
- ‘Egyptologists have often argued that the ancient Egyptians were not a maritime people. But recent evidence tells a different story.’ Robert Cioffi on how the ‘Red Sea Scrolls’ are changing our understanding of the building of the pyramids: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
- ‘What’s a guy to do these days to stir up a bit of outrage? Aren’t my bombs big enough? What’s the health of the state if no one notices its massacres?’ T.J. Clark follows up his piece from 23 January on Trump and the spectacle: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
- ‘Janet Frame found herself stuck in a psychiatric system that took her feeling for language as evidence of madness. When she compared herself to Pierre in “War and Peace”, her doctors thought she was describing a schizophrenic delusion.’ @lucieelven.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
- ‘As a means of equitably sheltering citizens from harm, an asset-based welfare project that depends on ever rising property values is useless.’ Jack Shenker on the UK’s rental crisis: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
- ‘Universities cannot legitimately make “content-based speech restrictions”. And yet there is still an educational argument for universities to tolerate encampments.’ @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
- ‘He read voraciously but fitfully, often preferring shlock from railway stalls to the Great Books he claimed to revere.’ @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social on the prolific writings of WIlliam Morris: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
- ‘Mass urban living brought new sensory pleasures but also required distinctively modern subjectivities articulated through ideas about personal space, autonomy and consent.’ @hannahrosewoods.bsky.social on a history of the sense of touch in Victorian Britain: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
- ‘These are violent and erotic poems. Morris has his eye on long throats and roving hands as well as corpses.’ @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social reads William Morris’s prolific writings: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
- Read Patricia Lockwood’s famed review of John Updike – angel, critic, ‘malfunctioning sex robot’ – here: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
