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Love’s Work is the ‘existential drama’ of a postwar Jewish British woman philosopher, born in London in 1947, who reads books, sits in meetings, falls in love, falls ill, faces death.But it also constructs a highly wrought and interlocking pattern of images and emblems which whoosh you, if you let them, right into the middle of ‘the trauma within reason itself’.
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On Monday, 28 October, six small book collectives, including the Palestine Festival of Literature (PalFest), published an open letter signed by a thousand writers (I am one of them) pledging to boycott Israeli cultural institutions that are ‘complicit in violating Palestinian rights’ and have ‘never publicly recognised the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people as enshrined in ...
Jenny Turner · What else actually is there? On Gillian Rose
Oct 30, 2024 · S uppose a friend you trust more than any other, who taught you the meaning of friendship, lets you down suddenly, and then persistently ceases to fulfil the expectations you have come to have of them. Would you give up all your friends? Would you simply avoid that particular friend? Would you try to have it out, which probably wouldn’t work, but would, if you held your nerve, change your ...
Judith Butler · The Compass of Mourning - London Review of Books
Oct 13, 2023 · T he matters most in need of public discussion, the ones that most urgently need to be discussed, are those that are difficult to discuss within the frameworks now available to us. Although one wishes to go directly to the matter at hand, one bumps up against the limits of a framework that makes it nearly impossible to say what one has to say.
Contents · Vol. 46 No. 21 · 07 November 2024
Oct 28, 2024 · The Searchers: Five Rebels, Their Dream of a Different Britain and Their Many Enemies by Andy Beckett. Allen Lane, 540 pp., £30, May, 978 0 241 39422 9
Podcast: James Butler and Thomas Jones · After Grenfell
Oct 3, 2024 · The final report of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry established that the fire on 14 June 2017, which killed 72 people, was the ‘culmination of decades of failure’.
Neal Ascherson · Scoops and Leaks: On Claud Cockburn
Neal Ascherson was for many years a foreign correspondent for the Observer, based in Bonn, and has written several books on Central and Eastern Europe, including Black Sea and The Struggles for Poland.He is also the author of Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland and a novel, The Death of the Fronsac.He has written a hundred pieces for the LRB, starting early in 1980 with an account of being ...
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Francis FitzGibbon · Diary: Why I Resigned
T he plan to ‘off-shore’ asylum seekers to Rwanda was the last straw. In May 2023, I resigned as a (part-time) immigration judge after twenty years in the job. It was less a matter of conscience, more of recognition that the role had become irrevocably tainted by the politics of asylum.