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Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age in Five Extraordinary Hacks by Scott J. Shapiro. Penguin, 420 pp., £10.99, May, 978 0 14 199384 3
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A s peripatetic as he was, Fred Sparks, who was then a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News, didn’t cover the Arab-Israeli War in 1948.He was too busy reporting on the civil war in Greece. But on repeated trips over the next decade to what reporters and cartographers still called the Levant, one thing Sparks always came back to …
Judith Butler · The Compass of Mourning - London Review of Books
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.
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‘Even blindfolded,’ Emanuel Litvinoff wrote of the interwar East End in Journey Through a Small Planet (1972), ‘I’d have known where we were by the smell of the different streets – reek of rotten fruit: Spitalfields; scent of tobacco warehouses: Commercial Street … Hanbury Street and the pungency of beer from Charrington’s brewery.
The Belgrano Diary - London Review of Books
Mar 28, 2024 · The sinking of the General Belgrano was the bloodiest and most controversial military action of the Falklands War.This is the story of a diary written onboard the British submarine that fired the torpedoes, the diary that proved Thatcher’s government hadn’t told the truth about what happened.
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History of Ideas - London Review of Books
Feb 22, 2024 · David Runciman’s acclaimed series of introductions to the most important thinkers and ideas behind modern politics. It’s now part of David’s new weekly podcast, Past Present Future, in which David talks to historians, novelists, scientists and politicians about where the most interesting ideas come from, what they mean, and why they matter.. Then once a month, he’ll focus on one of the ...
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In the first of three episodes on the crisis in the Middle East, Adam Shatz is joined by Mairav Zonszein and Amjad Iraqi to discuss the experiences of Israeli Jews and Palestinian citizens of Israel.
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