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‘If ever a project has demonstrated the futility of conservation divorced from any concern with planning or social good, this is it.’

Owen Hatherley on the redevelopment of Battersea Power Station, and of its environs:

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n03/owen-hatherley/in-battersea

Owen Hatherley · In Battersea · LRB 2 February 2023

If ever a project has demonstrated the futility of conservation divorced from any concern with planning or social good,...

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This issue’s cover is by @[email protected] – you can see a larger version by clicking on the cover image from the contents page, here:

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n03

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Always such a pleasure when @[email protected] arrives. What a beautiful cover.

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Contents · Vol. 45 No. 3 · 02 February 2023 · LRB

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‘One person, one vote makes no sense to people in Mali because it insists that majority opinion is the only way to adjudicate daunting issues of justice and power in a complex, heterogeneous society.’

Rahmane Idrissa in Bamako:

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n03/rahmane-idrissa/diary

Rahmane Idrissa · Diary: In Bamako · LRB 2 February 2023

In the 1990s and early 2000s, Mali was the poster child of democratisation in Africa. It is now seen as the West’s...

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Samuel Adams and the Boston crowd supply disturbing precedents for rabble-rousing populism, truth-bending demagoguery, intimidation, violence, vandalism and the destruction of property.

Colin Kidd on the through-line from Founding Father to January 6th:

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n03/colin-kidd/hanged-on-a-venerable-elm

Colin Kidd · Hanged on a Venerable Elm: Samuel Adams and the Mob · LRB 2 February 2023

A throwback to a thrawn New England Puritanism, Samuel Adams was less easily aligned with the Enlightenment or liberal...

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‘With coins, all but the most splendid rarities cost less than a mediocre Roman bust, while at the low end of the market, Pokémon cards are a better investment. So not just sordid but déclassé.’

Michael Kulikowski on how coins make history feel real:

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n03/michael-kulikowski/what-the-badger-found

Michael Kulikowski · What the Badger Found: Moneybags · LRB 2 February 2023

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Oscar, me, and the LRB

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“Oscar, me, and the LRB”

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‘Far from a romanticised image, Prince-Bythewood’s movie portrays a Dahomey that engages in the horror of slave trading of its own volition, for its own wealth and survival.’

@[email protected] on ‘The Woman King’:

http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2023/january/low-resolution-history

Toye Oladinni | Low Resolution History · LRB 24 January 2023

One of the most revealing things about discussion of The Woman King has been how low-resolution popular knowledge of...

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Podcast: Loretta J. Ross and Meehan Crist · Climate, Politics and Procreation: Loretta J. Ross · LRB 24 January 2023

In the first episode of a four-part series exploring the intersection of climate chaos and reproductive justice, Meehan...

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Plus! The @[email protected] Winter Lectures at Conway Hall:

10 Feb: William Davies - The Reaction Economy
24 Feb: Clair Wills - How to Plot an Abortion
10 Mar: Terry Castle - Some Mortifications of Family History

Find out more and book here: http://lrb.me/xgu

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LRB Winter Lectures 2023

After a two-year pandemic hiatus, the LRB’s annual series of winter lectures returns in 2023, bringing the paper’s radical, witty and stimulating agenda to Conway Hall in Bloomsbury. For the first time, all three lectures will also be livestreamed.

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‘In ancient Egyptian culture, images and words were in a state of constant oscillation between letters, sounds and things.’

James Davidson views ‘Hieroglyphs: unlocking Ancient Egypt’ at the @[email protected]:

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n03/james-davidson/at-the-british-museum

James Davidson · At the British Museum: The Phonetic Hieroglyphic Alphabet · LRB 2 February 2023

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