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Nigeria after USAID
Nigeria already struggles with inadequate healthcare funding. This year’s budget allocates only 5.18 per cent of ...
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James Stafford: Europe’s Holy Alliance Europe’s Holy Alliance
Undeterred by Napoleon’s brief return to power in 1815, Alexander sought to confirm his status as Europe’s saviour with the ...
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Labour’s Immigration Policy
I thought of it again when the Home Office published a report celebrating its ‘UK-wide blitz on illegal working to strengthen ...
London Review of Books4d
Edward Said and Late Style
Both in art and in our general ideas about the passage of human life there is assumed to be a general abiding timeliness. We assume that the essential health of a human life has a great deal to ...
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The Special Forces Fantasy
Your browser does not support the audio element. Laleh Khalili talks to Tom about the mythology of covert military operatives, through romance novels, self-help books ...
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Great Replacement Theory
Adam Shatz, the LRB’s US editor, talks to Sindre Bangstad and Reza Zia-Ebrahimi about the Great Replacement conspiracy theory, from its origins in the high tide of French colonial expansionism in the ...
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John McGahern's Letters
Colm Tóibín talks to Tom about the life and work of the novelist John McGahern through his recently published correspondence, which includes letters to Tóibín. They discuss his family, his banned work ...
London Review of Books4d
Consider the Pangolin, and Other Animals
Your browser does not support the audio element. Katherine Rundell has been writing about endangered animals in the LRB since 2018. Her new book, The Golden Mole ...
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A History of Revolution
Enzo Traverso talks to Adam Shatz about his new book on the history of revolutionary passions, images and ideas, from Haiti’s emancipatory slave rebellion in 1791 to Stalin’s top-down authoritarianism ...
London Review of Books4d
Elif Batuman and Merve Emre: Either/Or
Elif Batuman, author of The Possessed and The Idiot, talks to Merve Emre about her latest novel Either/Or. International travel, Harvard, Hungary and of course literature and philosophy collide in a ...
London Review of Books4d
Four Hundred Years of Women's Football
Emma John and Natasha Chahal join Tom to discuss England’s victory in Euro 2022, the long history of women’s football – mentioned in a poem by Philip Sidney in the 16th century, banned by the FA for ...
London Review of Books4d
Jeremy Smith
Jeremy Smith teaches at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi, and is Professor of Border and Russian Studies at the University of Eastern Finland.