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London Review of Books The Proust v. Google challenge
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Google Translate is quite a nifty tool. Not only can it work out for itself which language the phrase you’d like to translate is in – I suppose because you may well not know that yourself – but it translates it as you type. This is what it does as you type in the first sentence of A la recherche du ...
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Alan Bennett's Diary: 1 January 2009, Yorkshire. Ill over Christmas I say to Ernest
Coultherd, a farmer in the village, that my Christmas dinner consisted
of a poached egg. ‘Oh. Credit crunch, was it?’
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1 January, Yorkshire. Ill over Christmas I say to Ernest Coultherd, a farmer in the village, that my Christmas dinner consisted of a poached egg. ‘Oh. Credit crunch, wasit?’
London Review of Books The latest issue is now online: Alan Bennett's diary for 2009, Anne Enright on Ireland's recession, Steven Shapin among the Darwinists and lots lots more
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Alan Bennett Eats a Poached Egg - Steven Shapin: The Darwin Show - Anne Enright: Ireland's Recession - TJ Clark: Among the Sarcophagi - Michael Wood: Nabokov's Cards - Neal Ascherson: Gorbachev Betrayed - Jenny Diski: 'Psycho'
London Review of Books The modern equivalent of running away to sea, or joining the circus
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One of the main appeals of bicycle couriering is the freedom it seems to offer. Freedom from the inanities of office life, the freedom of the city. But there’s also the freedom to freeze on a slow ...
London Review of Books Saint Silvio, the self-made martyr: Gillian Darley in Naples
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San Gennaro (St Januarius) has a chapel in Naples Cathedral to himself, a church within a church, a bombastic Counter-Reformation affair of precious metals and rich marbles, encrusted with busts and frescoed to the rafters. ...
London Review of Books Jeremy Harding on the UK Border Agency's bizarre Christmas card: seasons greetings to the law abiding majority
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Within months of the birth of their illustrious little tyke, Mary and Joseph were IDPs – internally displaced persons – on the run in Palestine; and on entering Egypt they’d have been entitled to ask for asylum. Joseph would probably have been asked to take off his shoes at security, before having h...
London Review of Books Roy Mayall on why deregulation means the opposite of what it says
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I’m interested in the way that words change their meaning once they are adopted by bureaucratic institutions. Take deregulation, for instance, as it’s applied to postal services in Britain. It appears to mean an opening of the market to allow competition. ...
London Review of Books Jeremy Harding on the defection of the Eritrean football team, including an account of a couple of games he watched between Eritrean fighters during the war with Ethiopia
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The first things a new nation needs are a football team and an army. The last thing it needs is for either to disappear overnight and it’s an embarrassment to Eritrea, which won independence from Ethiopia ...
London Review of Books Paul Taylor on what you can learn from reshuffling the words of Moby-Dick, and a way of measuring meaning
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The four most ‘informative’ words in Moby-Dick, statistically speaking, are ‘I’, ‘whale’, ‘you’ and ‘Ahab’. Marcello Montemurro and Damian Zanette worked this out by comparing the text of Moby-Dick to all the possible alternatives obtainable by shuffling Melville’s words into random sequences. ...
London Review of Books Colm Tóibín on the difficulty he has interpreting signs: in books, in paintings, on toilet doors and elsewhere
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From an early age, I have missed the point of things. I noticed this first when the entire class at school seemed to understand that Animal Farm was about something other than animals. I alone sat there believing otherwise. ...
London Review of Books John Perry on the ongoing coup in Honduras and Obama's disappointing failures in Latin America
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Obama fluffed it. That’s the only reasonable conclusion to be drawn from the way the military coup in Honduras has played out over the last few months. Claiming that they still regarded Manuel Zelaya, ...
London Review of Books Alex Abramovich, despite (or because of) his press pass, fails to get into the NYPL to see the Velvet Undergound
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Lou Reed, who doesn’t care for journalists, takes evident pleasure in his venomous and/or monosyllabic replies to their questions. (‘Journalists are morons, idiots,’ he’s said. ‘You can hit them, stab them, kick them in the shins, abuse them and outrage them and they won’t even notice.’ Click here a...
London Review of Books Amit Chaudhuri changes planes in Dubai
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J.G. Ballard, reflecting on Heathrow, said that surely cities in the future would be suburbs of airports, rather than airports inhabiting the suburbs of cities. Dubai, at least from the aerial vantage-point of a cabin window, appears to have been planned on this principle well before Ballard arrived...
London Review of Books Eleanor Birne on Tracey Emin's unpopular plans to save Spitalfields for artists (well, one artist anyway)
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Tracey Emin has complained to the police of ‘harassment’, after a spoof letter purportedly written by her was sent to some of her neighbours in Spitalfields. It was written in childish handwriting, similar to her now iconic style (but spelled correctly, which made it instantly suspect). ...
London Review of Books The new issue is now online: David Runciman on the unusual Bill Clinton, R.W. Johnson on preparations for the World Cup in South Africa (it's not going well) and David Kaiser on the Large Hadron Collider. And plenty more.
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