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网页I n an essay on scholarly ‘necrophilia’, published in 2021, the historian of science Lorraine Daston noted that writing histories of their own disciplines is often an excuse for scholars to commune with ghosts. Not just any ghosts, either, but their academic forebears. Daston connects this longing to the intense bonds forged by traditional institutions of …
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网页England’s Insular Imagining: The Elizabethan Erasure of Scotland by Lorna Hutson. Cambridge, 323 pp., £30, November 2023, 978 1 009 25357 4
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网页Peter Green 1924-2024. Peter Green died last week at the age of 99. His many books include a Life of Alexander of Macedon, a history of the Hellenistic age, an account of the Sicilian expedition and translations of Homer, Apollonius Rhodius, Catullus, Ovid and Juvenal. Born in England in 1924, he spent the second half of his life in the US ...
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网页History of Ideas. David Runciman’s acclaimed series of introductions to the most important thinkers and ideas behind modern politics. It’s now part of David’s new weekly podcast, Past Present Future, in which David talks to historians, novelists, scientists and politicians about where the most interesting ideas come from, what they mean ...
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网页Schism: China, America and the Fracturing of the Global Trading System by Paul Blustein. McGill-Queen’s, 356 pp., £27.99, September 2019, 978 1 928096 85 6
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网页Volume 44 Number 8, 21 April 2022. Here is your free PDF copy of Volume 44 Number 8 – start reading now and find out for yourself what the LRB has to offer. To make sure you receive your next issue, subscribe today at the introductory rate of 12 issues for £12 and start reading the world’s best writing – from some of the world’s best ...
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网页2023年1月5日 · ‘I have clandestine conversations with supposedly nonexistent personages,’ Alicia Western tells her psychiatrist in Stella Maris, the second of two novels by Cormac McCarthy published this autumn.The leader of these phantoms is called the Thalidomide Kid. He’s a bit over three feet tall (Alicia measured this by comparing their shadows), has a bald and scarred head and flippers for hands.
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网页2021年7月1日 · John Burnside, who has died at the age of 69, contributed many poems to the LRB over the past thirty years.His poetry collections include Feast Days (1992), The Asylum Dance (2000) and Black Cat Bone (2011), which won both the Forward Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize.He taught at St Andrews. He also wrote several novels, two collections of short stories and three books of memoir, parts of which ...
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