Sophie Smith · Sleeping Women: On the Pelicot trial
Dec 26, 2024 · T he French word for rape is viol.It signals the violence and violation inherent to the acts it names. Since early September, Dominique Pelicot, a 71-year-old Frenchman, has been on trial in Avignon for repeatedly drugging his wife, Gisèle, and raping her as she slept.
London Review of Books
Feb 5, 2010 · B ook titles are like city buses: they bunch up and arrive in packs. When historians were obsessed with identity, collective nouns proliferated: Citizens (1989), Britons (1992), Commoners (1993), Aristocrats (1994). Foucault prompted genealogies of ‘isms’: orientalism, internationalism, imperialism, globalism, neoliberalism.
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Letters - lrb.co.uk
Dec 26, 2024 · Bill Lancaster mentions his friend John Walton’s search for the first fish and chip shop in England and that he discovered a likely candidate in the East End (Letters, 24 October).This location is supported by The Epicure’s Almanack, Ralph Rylance’s comprehensive guide to eating and drinking in London, published in 1815.Reporting on Shoreditch, Rylance noted: ‘Here are Israelitish ...
Contents · Vol. 46 No. 24 · 26 December 2024
The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham by Lucy Hughes-Hallett. Fourth Estate, 630 pp., £30, October 2024, 978 0 00 812655 1
Devorah Baum | ‘Alice’
Nov 25, 2024 · On Monday, 30 September, the LRB in partnership with MUBI screened Jan Švankmajer’s film ‘Alice’ at the Garden Cinema as the latest in a series of events exploring the art of literary adaptation. Devorah Baum introduced it. ‘Now you will see a film,’ says a close-up of a mouth with not much face to go with it.
Conversations in Philosophy: 'Fear and Trembling' by Søren …
The series begins with Søren Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling (1843), an exploration of faith through the story of Abraham and Isaac.Like most of Kierkegaard’s published work, Fear and Trembling appeared under a pseudonym, Johannes de Silentio, and its playful relationship to the reader doesn’t stop there.Described as a ‘dialectical …
LRB Blog
In response to attacks by warring guerrilla factions that have killed dozens of people and displaced tens of thousands in north-east Colombia, President Gustavo Petro has declared an ‘estado de conmoción interior’ for the country, as well as an ‘emergencia económica’ in the Caribbean department of the Guajira.
Fara Dabhoiwala · A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams …
In 1687, Newton’s Principia had put forward a revolutionary new hypothesis that eventually transformed science – a unified theory of motion, and of gravity, the invisible force that governed the universe. His book was written entirely in Latin, the international language of higher learning, and used complicated mathematical formulae that only the most advanced scientists could grasp.
Linda Kinstler
A court summons arrived in December, alerting me that I had been selected for ‘special jury service’. An accompanying letter explained that the trial would be held at the court for the District of Columbia. It was due to begin on 4 March and was …