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British generals and politicians keep warning that the UK needs to be ready for imminent war or – in the government’s ...

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In my own For You journey into Faragism, I was struck by the recurring assumption that the ultimate prize was exit ...

‘I want to write a poem of a new class – a Don Juan, without the mockery and impurity,’ Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote to a friend in 1844, ‘and admitting of as much philosophical dreaming and ...

Belle da Costa Greene was one of the best-paid women in New York City. As J.P. Morgan’s personal librarian, she criss-crossed the Atlantic in pursuit of rare manuscripts to add to his collection, ...

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Andrew O’Hagan Andrew O’Hagan is the LRB’s editor at large.He is the author of seven novels – Our Fathers, Personality, Be Near Me, The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, The Illuminations, Mayflies ...