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‘The department store is dying,’ Rosemary Hill wrote recently in the LRB, reviewing an exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris on the origins of the grands magasins.She joins Tom to talk about their 19th and 20th-century heyday as cathedrals of consumerism as well as places where women could spend time away from home, and away from men, safely...
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England’s Insular Imagining: The Elizabethan Erasure of Scotland by Lorna Hutson. Cambridge, 323 pp., £30, November 2023, 978 1 009 25357 4
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The London Review of Books is Europe’s leading magazine of culture and ideas.Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of the world’s best writers to explore a wide variety of subjects in exhilarating detail – from art and politics to science and technology via history and philosophy, not to mention fiction and poetry.In the age …
Archive · Volume 46, 2024 - London Review of Books
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2024年9月26日 · Thanks to New Directions, Plunket’s two novels are now back in print. On its reissue last year, My Search for Warren Harding was hailed as a comic masterpiece all over again. It’s not as funny as the filthy and genuinely transgressive Love Junkie, but if you were a PR strategist planning to resurrect a literary career, you would be right to start with a scholarly romp about an American ...
Vol. 44 No. 7 · 7 April 2022 - London Review of Books
Lartigue: The Boy and the Belle Époque by Louise Baring. Thames and Hudson, 192 pp., £28, April 2020, 978 0 500 02130 9
Vol. 44 No. 1 · 6 January 2022 - London Review of Books
Devil-Land: England under Siege, 1588-1688 by Clare Jackson. Allen Lane, 682 pp., £35, September 2021, 978 0 241 28581 7
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Rosemary Hill joins Tom to talk about their 19th and 20th-century heyday as cathedrals of consumerism but as places, too, where women could spend time away from home, and away from men, safely and respectably.
Contents · Vol. 42 No. 15 · 30 July 2020 - London Review of Books
Superpower Showdown: How the Battle between Trump and Xi Threatens a New Cold War by Bob Davis and Lingling Wei. Harper, 480 pp., £25, June 2020, 978 0 06 295305 6
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