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Perry Anderson: Powell v. the World, 2 August 2018

... principally writers, painters and sculptors, musicians, in that order – comprise about half the roll call, the rest made up of rulers, princelings, politicians, generals, diplomats and the like; in Powell, two-thirds. Within these, Proust was more parochial: 90 per cent of his writers and two-thirds of his painters were French; in Powell, close to half his ...

Roaming the Greenwood

Colm Tóibín: A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition by Gregory Woods, 21 January 1999

A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition 
by Gregory Woods.
Yale, 448 pp., £24.95, February 1998, 0 300 07201 5
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... distortion than any merely good writer who happens to work in a national language.’ He cites Eric Partridge in Shakespeare’s Bawdy in 1968 beginning his argument against Shakespeare’s homosexuality with the phrase ‘Like most other heterosexual persons, I believe . . .’ – Woods makes nonsense of Partridge’s arguments. He goes on to quote ...

Day 5, Day 9, Day 16

LRB Contributors: On Ukraine, 24 March 2022

... Pen secured a loan worth 9.4 million euros from Russian creditors to cover the party’s losses, roll over a debt to her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, and fund her 2017 electoral campaign.For asylum seekers and refugees hoping to enter Europe, race is the critical hurdle to cross. Ukrainians, a spokesperson for Reconquête! explained, ‘share our ...

Too Close to the Bone

Allon White, 4 May 1989

... and covered in mud, is huge and takes three men to wheel into the workshop before they let it roll forwards on its own to crash down on the floor. I like Horace. He stands on the wheel and drives a great steel ram again and again into the edge of the tyre to break the seal. I put my hands over my ears but he continues, smashing the ram against the steel ...

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