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    "Houston has experienced a ‘500-year’ flood in each of the last three years. For the last 10,000 years, the probability of a 500-year storm occurring in three successive years would have been 1 in 125,000,000." via

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  2. 18 hours ago

    'Winding up his efforts in the 1954 mid-terms Vice-President Richard Nixon handed an aide the notes of his last campaign speech and said: "You might like to keep it as a souvenir. It’s the last one, because after this I am through with politics." '

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  3. 19 hours ago

    In France, the forked branches of genealogical trees looked to some like a pé de grue, or ‘crane’s foot’, which became the English ‘pedigree'

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  4. 20 hours ago

    'I would like to advance some arguments for my own suitability for the job' Fiona Pitt-Kethley on why she should be named poet laureate:

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    "We have, in postmodernity, given up on the attempt to ‘estrange’ our daily life and see it in new, poetic or nightmarish, ways...we have abandoned the quest for new languages to describe the stream of the self-same."

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    This week's podcast: Martin Moore and David Runciman on the future of democracy in the digital age

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  7. 24 hours ago

    'Holbein’s portrait of Cromwell shows the ideal bureaucrat. Within reach are the implements of office: quill, book and papers. The steadiness of the gaze is what unnerves the viewer.' Stephen Alford on Diarmaid MacCulloch’s new life of Thomas Cromwell:

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  8. Nov 6

    'These novels, really, are romances, in the sense that everything that happens in them is charged with magic, nothing is merely ordinary or redundant' Tessa Hadley on Michael Ondaatje

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  9. Nov 5

    New Yorkers: our editor, Mary-Kay Wilmers, will be in conversation with Andrew O’Hagan on Wednesday 14 November. Tickets are free, but advance registration is recommended:

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    Nov 5

    my ASMR is Fredric Jameson, in a review of the new Knausgaard, saying “we must draw the line at the 400-page ‘Hitler essay’”

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  11. Nov 5

    Our catastrophising about the future brings into sharper relief the mundane but ineradicable flaws already present in democratic culture. Liberal democracy always teeters on the edge.

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    Nov 5

    And in case you want background on Cameroon, the secessionist's campaign for independence, and how schools have become caught in the middle, here's 5,000 words of it:

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    Nov 5

    Today in awful news:

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    Clear-sighted summary of the consequences of Brexit by and for the . Based mostly around short-term disruption but should be required reading for legislators in the coming months.

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  15. Nov 5

    Our first online LRB store is now open. Get 10% off your first order with the code ‘LAUNCH’ at checkout:

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    Nov 5

    I have a new blog up at the about political violence in Durban, South Africa. It focuses on the organisation Abahlali base Mjondolo an organisation of many thousands of members who are informally and/or illegally housed

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  17. Nov 5

    'Happiness, I consider in my papery season, did zigzag toward me / until later I got hated, in the guise of that demon I was held to be.' 'Slow Burn' by Denise Riley:

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  18. Nov 5

    ‘There is only now, and now, and now, and now – one moment endlessly giving way to another.’ Jane Campbell writes about Marclay’s ‘The Clock’, and about the death of her father, art critic and artist Peter Campbell (for many years creator of our covers).

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  19. Nov 5

    If poetry feels really alive when it stings, swells and palpitates, then no wonder Swinburne baited his critics by refusing to change a word of 'Poems and Ballads', whose tortured couples welcome snakebites. Peter Howarth on Swinburne:

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    Nov 4

    Reading this very long, interesting article about Frantz Fanon and his lifelong sense of isolation. Particularly struck by this: "In much of the Third World, the dream of liberation from Europe has been supplanted by the dream of emigration to Europe."

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