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Iain Sinclair on books about London
“There seems to be a belief now, with the world of cyberspace, that people don’t need to make the old archaeological journeys into the literature of the past – that they can download or access elements...
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Nature is not only utilitarian, but also wasteful
The Origin of Beauty: Darwin’s greatest Dilemma by Josef H. Reichholf: a review by Horst Bredekamp Did Darwin, in his theory of ‘sexual’ selection, define nature as a history of erotic form – or even...
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Identity in South Africa
The journalist and author Jonny Steinberg discusses five books with strikingly different interpretations of what it means to be South African today, whether black or white. » Read on… « The post...
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From brainlessness to mindlessness: the state of modern psychiatry
“The shift from “talk therapy” to drugs as the dominant mode of treatment coincides with the emergence over the past four decades of the theory that mental illness is caused primarily by chemical...
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Observations on the Mysteries of Photography
Review of Errol Morris’s Believing Is Seeing (Observations on the Mysteries of Photography) From the review: “At its core … Believing Is Seeing is an elegantly conceived and ingeniously constructed...
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The Making of London
“What do a living organism, a laboratory, and a latrine have in common? They have all been used as metaphors for London, respectively, by Peter Ackroyd, Zadie Smith, and Martin Amis.” A review of...
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John Gray reviews five of his favourite books at The Browser. A few extracts from the conversation to whet your appetite: “I would call a project utopian if it can be known with reasonable confidence...
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Proud to be Flesh
In the latest volume of the New Left Review, Julian Stallabrass reviews Mute magazine’s new book-format publication entitled Proud to be Flesh: A Mute Magazine Anthology of Cultural Politics after the...
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Buy your rights here!
In the article and interview listed below, Michael Sandel makes a simple claim. In the past three decades, he says, market values have crossed the boundaries of the market and have been invading...
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Less than nothing: Gray on Zizek
In a NYRB review of Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism and Living in the End Times, John Gray takes a serious look at the work of Slavoj Zizek. An excerpt from the...
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