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The life of the tenth Ottoman sultan, Suleyman, known in Europe as the Magnificent and in Turkey as the Lawgiver, has. ..

Above all, Jackson presents James as a ‘king of words’. No king before or since has written so thoughtfully about. ..

Pepys was a meticulous – some might say compulsive – record-keeper. Into his diary’s pages went social debts (who. ..

For Rimsky-Korsakov, the key of A was clear pink; for Scriabin, it was green. Duke Ellington read the flight patterns of. ..

Reading the work​ that Susan Howe has produced over the past half century, one marvels at the consistency and depth of. ..

The universe has no centre. What Pynchon has mapped is a world that is continuous and connected, where borders, however. ..

What must it have been like to live cheek by jowl with the man you’d cuckolded? In the early 19th century, for a woman. ..

In September​, a suitcase filled with sculptural odds and ends was discovered beneath a spiral staircase in Louise. ..

The letters page from London Review of Books Vol. 47 No. 23

A rash of data centers planned for western Pennsylvania has residents and environmentalists on edge. The sprawling complexes will be powered by plants that burn fracked natural gas, whose production has caused air and water pollution in the region and has known health risks.

We Can, a new comic‑book and animation series, asks bluntly: if we can achieve miracles, why are we still promoting destruction?

Brontez Purnell on relationships, recovery, and writing as thinking

by Benjamin Selwyn

More than fifty years since its thirty thousand inhabitants—most of them Greek-Cypriots—fled before the advancing Turkish army, the resort city of Varosha on Cyprus’s southeastern coast has been reborn. Now, from 8 AM to 6 PM every day, visitors are free to enter this modern wasteland through a casually guarded gate and wander a small portion of its once-thriving streets. From what I’ve seen, the tourism may be less dark than dumb, kitschifying the skeletal city into yet another selfie backdrop.

With hundreds of satellites launched each year and tens of thousands more planned, scientists are increasingly concerned about an emerging problem: emissions from the fuels burned in launches and from the pollutants released when satellites and rocket stages flame out on reentry.

If the enshrinement of a salary cap does not yet feel entirely inevitable, the prospect of a lockout does, at least amongst the baseball commentariat. The tenor is the same: the situation has gotten out of hand, and the mythical fan, an amalgamation of conventional wisdom and vibes transubstantiated into hypothetical flesh and blood, is now for the first time starting to side with management over labor.

The Dodgers’ model, like the city’s, depends on endless escalation, infinite growth; more spending, more spectacle, more winning. The Reds, meanwhile, live on prayer and parsimony. When you know the ending before the first pitch, fandom curdles into masochism.

Subscribers // by Serge Halimi

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