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The Stone and the Unicorn
The first person to grasp the marketing potential of the unicorn seems to have been King James I of Scotland.
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The Post-Zionist Jew
Many Jews today feel torn. On the one hand, they feel loyalty to Israel, the land of their fellow Jews, many of ...
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Sally Davies
The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of ...
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Adam Mars-Jones: Novel Punctuation
It would seem obvious that Watson’s priority is to manifest a voice, but this sort of punctuation addresses the eye ...
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Ange Mlinko: On Eley Williams
W here you have ​ a girl and a looking-glass, or – in the case of one of Eley Williams’s short stories – a woman who sees her ...
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Scoops and Leaks
Like George Orwell and several other establishment rebels, Claud Cockburn was born overseas, the son of Henry Cockburn, a ...
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Why I Resigned
In May 2023, I resigned as a (part-time) immigration judge after twenty years in the job. It was less a matter of conscience, ...
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Pilots of the Caribbean
Six weeks after the start of the Second World War, the British government lifted the colour bar on military ...
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Medieval LOLs: Boccacio’s ‘Decameron’, Part Two
Mary and Irina resume their discussion of Boccaccio’s Decameron, focusing on three stories of female agency, deception and desire. Alibech, an aspiring hermitess, is tricked into indulging her ...
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Yezid Sayigh
Yezid Sayigh is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut.