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1 month ago | 
mdpi.com | Edward J Pavlik |Frank Lawton |Allison Swiecki-Sikora |Dharani Ramaiah
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1 month ago | 
spectator.co.uk | Frank Lawton
There are, broadly speaking, two types of artist: the explorer and the miner. The explorer keeps moving on, staking out new aesthetic or thematic terrain, while the miner keeps returning, digging deeper into the same earth each time. Patrick Modiano, the French Nobel prizewinner for literature in 2014, is an artist firmly of the second camp. Ballerina may be Modiano’s 32nd novel, but it feels more like the latest haunting chapter of the one long book that makes up his career.
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1 month ago | 
spectator.com.au | Frank Lawton
Ballerina Yale, pp.122, 14.99 There are, broadly speaking, two types of artist: the explorer and the miner. The explorer keeps moving on, staking out new aesthetic or thematic terrain, while the miner keeps returning, digging deeper into the same earth each time. Patrick Modiano, the French Nobel prizewinner for literature in 2014, is an artist firmly of the second camp.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Frank Lawton
Doctors demonstrate against the Bill outside the Houses of Parliament Credit: Paul Grover/Paul Grover It is, quite literally, a matter of life and death. On Friday, MPs will spend (a mere) five hours debating Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, before holding a free vote. Were the Bill to pass, mentally competent adults in England and Wales whom two “medical practitioners” deem to be terminally ill and have six months or less to live could, with the approval of a High...
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Jane Stannus |Douglas Murray |Amber Duke |Frank Lawton
It’s indisputable. Food & Drink is The Spectator’s most important section. Ask yourself this: if you hadn’t eaten in days, would you have the slightest interest in perusing the deft political analysis, elevating cultural commentary and scintillating wit to be found the rest of the magazine? Without food, the only reading worth bothering with is Preparation for Death. As starvation sets in, only the two inevitables remain — Death and Taxes — and what need to worry about taxes?
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Mark Piesing |Esme Bright |Philip Womack |Frank Lawton
In May 1942, Agent Zo was in the home stretch after a long and risky mission that had placed her in Berlin, at the heart of Nazi Germany. As usual, she picked up a small stone and threw it at the second-floor window of her sister’s apartment in a grimy industrial city in occupied Poland, south of Warsaw. But no one in the flat turned on a light, the agreed signal. She threw another. Nothing happened.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Ian O’Doherty |Europe Why Ireland |Sergey Radchenko |Frank Lawton
Is Ireland the most antisemitic country in Europe? Most Irish people would vehemently disagree. But if you asked: “is Ireland the most anti-Israeli country in Europe?” then many people here would actually take the question as a compliment. Hating Israel is not just acceptable in Ireland; it has become virtually mandatory. The latest evidence for this took place at a county council meeting in Dublin on October 7, the anniversary of the Hamas pogrom.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Sergey Radchenko |Frank Lawton |Ryan M. Spaeder |Michael Evans
In just a few months we will mark the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The war has resulted in hundreds of thousands of casualties, and has left millions displaced. Ukraine’s infrastructure — in particular the energy infrastructure — is in shambles. The costs of recovery will likely be in the trillions of dollars. And still, there is no end in sight. As the war drags on, calls for negotiations are becoming louder.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Frank Lawton |Ryan M. Spaeder |Andrew Sullivan |Ian Birrell
What people tend to forget about Jesus Christ is that he killed children. As a five-year-old, Jesus was toddling through a village when a small boy ran past, knocking his shoulder. Taking it like any five-year-old would, Jesus shouted after him “you shall not go further on your way,” at which point the boy fell down dead. Later, when the boy’s parents admonished Joseph and Mary for failing to raise their son properly, Jesus blinded them.
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Oct 12, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | James Ball |Sergey Radchenko |Frank Lawton |Ryan M. Spaeder
Yuval Noah Harari has sold more than forty-five million books in sixty-five languages. He is a professor with a PhD from the University of Oxford, has spoken at TED and the World Economic Forum in Davos, and his latest book, Nexus, is considered “erudite, provocative and entertaining” by Rory Stewart and “thought-provoking and so very well reasoned” by Stephen Fry.
