4 days ago
philgyford : LRB · letters page from Vol. 30 No. 14 - The '10' on 10 Downing Street's front door is Trajan, with an upper case 'O' instead of a zero.
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1 month ago
philgyford : LRB · Iain Sinclair: The Olympics Scam - Very good long article on the 2012 London Olympics and its effect on East London. I was getting won over by the Olympics until this reminded me how I really feel.
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7 month ago
philgyford : LRB · Thomas Jones: Short Cuts - "The best of the lot, though, is the diary of Samuel Pepys, which a web designer called Phil Gyford has been posting in daily instalments since 2003..." Hurrah!
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13 month ago
philgyford : LRB | Rosemary Hill : Keep Calm - An account of the Co-operative Correspondence Club (early 20C women's letter-writing distribution network). Also rather moving as the century continues and the women age.
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philgyford : LRB | Andrew O’Hagan : The Things We Throw Away - Wonderful essay about the UK's rubbish and recycling. Well worth reading. "Throwing things away has been so essential to our sense of how to live that we forget we invented the process just to increase our pleasures."
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18 month ago
philgyford : LRB | Barry Schwartz : Stop the treadmill! - Interesting review of what sounds like a fascinating book: 'The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain since 1950' by Avner Offer. (Subscribers only unfortunately.)
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21 month ago
philgyford : LRB | Jonathan Lear : Can the virtuous person exist in the modern world? - More ethics, morality, philosophy stuff for me to delve into one mythical day when I have loads more time to read books. (Subscribers only)
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24 month ago
philgyford : LRB | David Edgar : Stalking Out - Review of a John Osborne biography with lots of interesting history about 1950s/60s London theatre, especially 'Look Back in Anger', Stratford East, and the Royal Court, and whether theatre was shaken up or not.
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24 month ago
philgyford : LRB | E.S. Turner : Catchers in the Rye - Interesting article about the history of animal and human traps (subscribers only).
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philgyford : LRB | letters from Vol. 28 No. 15 - I have a letter in the current London Review of Books. I fear they'll rumble that my knowledge is based solely on Google and Wikipedia (I've never seen 'Happy Days').
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27 month ago
philgyford : LRB | Tom Shippey : The Most Learned Man in Europe - Interesting summary of the history of libraries in Western Europe. (Subscribers only.)
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27 month ago
philgyford : LRB | Rose George : Diary - Subscribers-only or pay-for, but an interesting account of going into London's sewers. She's working on a book about human waste...
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28 month ago
philgyford : LRB | Steven Shapin : At the Amsterdam - Review of two books on the history of coffee houses. A fascinating summary of how lively, interesting and important they were. (Subscribers only unfortunately.)
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38 month ago
philgyford : LRB | Patrick Wright : Cubist Slugs - Particularly for the first two-thirds, outlining the fascinating art-influenced history of early camouflage. Worth a read.
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