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    “The New Yorker said it was ‘far-fetched nonsense’; Time thought it just ‘another Hitchcock and bull story’.”

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    Timely reminder — British immigration policy is also needlessly, wilfully cruel. William Davies in outlined the system perfectly

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    In our latest episode, David talks to Andrew O'Hagan about his epic essay on the Grenfell Tower fire. We discuss what the community was like before the fire, what went wrong on the night, and how politics has intruded into everything since →

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    This, in the LRB, is a quite excellent, bittersweet appraisal of Vertigo in its 60th anniversary year by the film critic David Thomson

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    I have just had a little nostalgia-fest with a photo taken of me aged 18 by my mate Diana Bonakis Webster, on a 'dig". I think I did once look like this and still see myself somewhere here (or do I?)

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    'It's irrefutably clear that "Vertigo" is a confession to the damage done by men's grooming of women's desirability. And even if the film is tragic, I don't think its fantasy can go unchastised.' David Thomson on Hitchcock after Weinstein:

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    ‘It wasn’t until the 1930s, when Alan Turing drew attention to the originality of her work, that Ada got her due, up to a point.’ Read Rosemary Hill on the mathematician Ada Lovelace

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    ‘One must not come to feel that he has a thousand threads / in his hands. He must somehow see the one thing.’ Jeremy Harding on the poems of George Oppen

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    'One real tradition that continues at Stonehenge is English radicalism' Rosemary Hill marks the solstice:

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    Happy birthday to Anne Carson. It feels right that she was born on the summer solstice, what with all that light.

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  11. Jun 21

    On the LRB blog: Stanley Cavell; Beckett's psychoanalyst; the Glasgow School of Art fire; Viktor Tsoi; Anthony Bourdain; on abortion rights in Northern Ireland.

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    Some charge with being a closet referendum Leaver. I don’t buy it. David Runciman went through Benn diaries & records him disagreeing with Benn on just one thing: Europe. Benn wanted referendum on Maastricht, Corbyn didn’t.

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    Said's diary remains one of my favourite things to read when end of year overload brain sets in: , with highlights, "I recall rather needlessly and idiotically introducing Foucault to him [Sartre]" and "It was about as informative as a Reuters dispatch"

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    On the new episode of , David Runciman interviews Andrew O'Hagan about 'The Tower'.

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    ‘The FA’s approach – star power plus a few sweeteners on the side – was exactly the wrong way to go.’ Read David Runciman on Fifa

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    'Not a word from Geoffrey' Sam Thompson, author of JOTT, explores the fascinating relationship between his grandfather Geoffrey and Samuel Beckett through their letters

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    'Here, embedded in four thick volumes of edited correspondence, were fragments of what felt like a private story to be pieced together' Sam Thompson on what his grandfather knew about Samuel Beckett

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    Sunday's election in traumatised Turkey is make or break for both sides. If Erdogan wins he will rule as a dictator. NATO not worried as long as he's not too disruptive. The best essay on the subject for background is here:

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    NEW EPISODE! David talks to Andrew O'Hagan about his epic essay on the terrible Grenfell Tower fire. We discuss what the Grenfell community was like before the fire, what went wrong on the night, and how politics has intruded into everything since →

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    English Heritage now ‘wishes you a happy solstice’, through lightly gritted teeth. Rosemary Hill reports from Stonehenge

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