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The use of the term ‘architecture’ in Stone Circles is another sign of the way archaeology has mellowed. If architecture is defined as construction aesthetically conceived, then stone circles, which often have a clear entrance and worked surfaces to distinguish between the interior and the exterior, are unquestionably architecture.
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One of the only ways for foreign correspondents to get into Mali now is to rely on the services of human smugglers, as I did a few weeks ago. A former journalist turned fixer told me there were ‘no foreign tourists and journalists, no income for us and, with no development aid from France, most social development projects have come to a standstill’.
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Contents · Vol. 46 No. 19 · 10 October 2024
England’s Insular Imagining: The Elizabethan Erasure of Scotland by Lorna Hutson. Cambridge, 323 pp., £30, November 2023, 978 1 009 25357 4
Terry Eagleton · The Excitement of the Stuff: On Fredric Jameson
Oct 10, 2024 · Terry Eagleton has written around fifty books, including, most famously, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), and around eighty LRB pieces. His subjects have included critics (Erich Auerbach, Mikhail Bakhtin, Georg Lukacs, I.A. Richards, Stanley Fish, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak), Richard Dawkins’s The God Delusion and many novels.He taught for many years at Oxford, becoming the Warton ...
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 …
Introducing: ‘The Belgrano Diary’ - London Review of Books
The sinking of the General Belgrano was the bloodiest and most controversial military action of the Falklands War.This is the story of government cover-ups and conspiracies; of whistleblowers, crusading politicians and journalists fighting for the story.