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    'My Marvel Years' by Jonathan Lethem

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    One person clearly not surprised by the devastating fires in California is Mike Davis, who wrote this prescient and illuminating essay about the state’s “increasingly inflammable wildlands” a year ago.

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    ‘Hersh’s work is especially important to remember in the contemporary political climate, when the CIA and FBI have acquired extraordinary legitimacy among people who think of themselves as liberals.’ . argues why the world needs Seymour Hersh

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    ‘In Marvel’s greatest comics, Lee and Kirby were full collaborators who, like Lennon and McCartney, really were more than the sum of their parts.’ Jonathan Lethem in the (in 2004)

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    ‘His rhetoric of community was a weird, vibrant lie: every single true believer, every single member of the Make Mine Marvel society or whatever the fuck we were meant to be called, received the comics as a private communion’ – Jonathan Lethem on Stan Lee:

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  6. 11 hours ago

    'It was part of her excellence, part of the appeal of her writing, that she never made more – or less – of herself than she deserved.' Rosemarie Bodenheimer on the works of Elizabeth Gaskell

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  7. 13 hours ago

    'A diary, Roland Barthes suggested, provokes in its writer not the tragic question, "Who am I?" but the comic question: "Am I?"' Michael Wood on Roland Barthes and the meaninglessness of meaning

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    'From 1913, when the news arrived of his death in the snow, until the late 1970s, Robert Falcon Scott’s reputation was frozen as the apotheosis of duty, Britishness and the selfless, good death.' Jenny Diski on the enduring myth of Captain Scott

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  9. 15 hours ago

    New Yorkers! This Thursday, November 15th, join us at for the first event in our new collaborative series, curated by Paul Muldoon, feat. , and Matmos. Get $5 off tickets if you book with the code ‘LRB5’:

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    The new tries to make sense of the recent election of Jair Bolsonaro as president of Brazil. To listen to the episode and find a reading list of related pieces from the visit:

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  11. 16 hours ago

    'There was obviously something about Plath that stung people who knew her into frantic self-justification.' on 'The Haunting of Sylvia Plath'

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    EVENT: John Berger - A Writer of Our Time, with biographer Joshua Sperling and 's Leo Hollis, 22 Nov. Book now:

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    Ben Lerner wrote in the LRB that Knausgaard's sentences can seem like lists. Now Fredric Jameson, also in the LRB, says they are, in fact, lists. An odd yet fascinating essay about the absence of struggle in "My Struggle."

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  14. Nov 11

    James Sheehan on 'The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End'

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    ‘We just exist from day to day, with no thought of the morrow except wishing this horrible war was over, or other impossible things.’

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    ‘The life expectancy of an airman in France in 1916 was three weeks; by 1917 it was a fortnight.’ Malcolm Gaskill on 'Plot 6, Row C, Grave 15'

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    NEW EPISODE ! Brazil.. We try to make sense of the election of far-right politician Jair Bolsonaro as president. Who voted for him and why? And what does his election tell us about the prospects for democracy in the wider world? →

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    PODCAST: Martin Moore and David Runciman on digital threats to democracy

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    Something to consider during the First World War centenary: “It was the weakness and unreliability of the alliances, and the lack of certainty about who would be on whose side, that exacerbated the crisis of summer 1914 in the capitals of Europe.”

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  20. Nov 11

    ‘The centrality of family finances in determining social outcomes trashes the meritocratic vision of society as a “level playing field” where “social mobility” is the overriding goal.’ William Davies on neoliberalism and family values

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