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    "‘What did you do in El Bogotazo, Gabo?’ he asked. Smiling, ever inventive, García Márquez replied: ‘Fidel, I was that man with the typewriter.’" (The Man with the Typewriter by John Perry)

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    This superb John Hume essay from 1989 is free to read at the moment on the LRB website Last two paras below.

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    On "the 'everything' bagel of Stalin biography": "But at least Stalin might take some satisfaction from the fact that, as far as his personal core was concerned, he was too clever for Kotkin." Sheila Fitzpatrick in the : via

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    "the New Model Ulster is rising from the wreckage", an LRB diary from 20 years ago via

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    'Exhausted after four days of non-stop talking, everyone signed up to an agreement it was far from clear that anyone really understood. It was a great achievement.' David Runciman on the , from the archive:

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    'Blair played a blinder. Between 3 and 4:40 on the afternoon of Good Friday they were hanging by a thread. But it was all done and dusted by 4:45. This was the moment in and out of time. Historical, but somewhere else as well. Somewhere, well out, beyond.'

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    Tell me about the Ladbroke Arms, you say.

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    In 1987, the Conservative Party had four (4!!!) times more members than Labour. How times change. Blair in the

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    In 1989, a decade before the , John Hume wrote a piece for the LRB about the end of the Unionist veto in Ulster, and these were its closing paragraphs:

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    Carson McCullers' mother bragged to visitors that Carson cried in tune

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    ‘We Chinese wish to say the privilege of a mere typewriter is not tempting enough to make us cast aside 4,000 years of classics, literature & history.’ on Chinese Typewriter, a lens into modernity, imperialism & social construction in China.

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    Fidel Castro and Gabriel García Márquez didn’t meet until 1960. Much later, by then close friends, they reminisced about events in Bogotá in 1948 and how their paths might have crossed that day:

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    Gabriel García Márquez and Fidel Castro:

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    'It would surely have infuriated Stalin to have Stephen Kotkin around as a doppelgänger, a fancy-pants Western intellectual patronisingly second-guessing his actions, whose noncorporeal presence meant he couldn’t be taken out and shot' - on Stalin Vol. II:

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    In last week's episode, we talked corporate influence and privatisation, so here we've rummaged in the archives to dig out our chat with the splendid John Lanchester - the financial crisis, politics, and what went wrong...

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    'Anne Enright, like many others before her, identifies the fruit Eve eats as an apple. The Bible doesn’t mention apples, in fact, but describes the unnamed forbidden fruit as having no seeds ...' And other recent letters to the Editor:

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    People never write about MFA world but for hating on it, and generally it does all seem a bit poncy. How does the creative writing masters survive?

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    fascinating nerdery:

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    Donald Mackenzie's new piece in LRB on short selling contains unusually illuminating account of market mechanics ('plumbing'):

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    Listen again: ’s talks to us about women and power, and what we can learn from the Roman Empire about modern politics. Download now for the week ahead:

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