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wsj.com | Henry Hitchings
Many of the world’s thousands of languages are on the brink of extinction. Humankind collectively speaks about 7,000 languages, yet each month one vanishes. For the Scottish linguist and biographer Lorna Gibb, this loss is more than unfortunate—it mirrors the extinction of biological species.
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the-tls.co.uk | Henry Hitchings |Bharat Tandon |Georgina Wilson |Anthony K. Cheetham
Commercial publishers are apt to be cautious; their detractors would say “timid”. An exception is Anthony Cheetham, whose almost sixty years in the business have been defined by entrepreneurial boldness.
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2 months ago |
the-tls.co.uk | Henry Hitchings |Joe Moran |Travis Elborough |Timothy Brook
“Our romantic affair with the automobile has cooled”, writes Witold Rybczynski in this brisk, informative history of automotive design. What was once passionate – an infatuation that also seemed an enlargement of self – now feels “more like a loveless marriage”. The insight is hardly new. Indeed, it was offered at least as long ago as 1958, by John C. Keats in his book The Insolent Chariots.
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2 months ago |
the-tls.co.uk | Travis Elborough |Joe Moran |Henry Hitchings |Timothy Brook
“I’ve got this thing about Croydon”, David Bowie – who was raised in Bromley – told Q magazine in 1999. It was my nemesis, I hated Croydon with a real vengeance. It represented everything I didn’t want in my life, everything I wanted to get away from. I think it’s the most derogatory thing I can say about somebody or something: “God, it’s so fucking Croydon!” It was gonna be the big second city to London, but it never came to be.
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2 months ago |
thespectator.com | Edward Howell |Henry Hitchings |Philip Patrick |Justin Brierley
Month after month, it just kept plummeting. The South Korean birth rate last year earned the not-so-holy prize for being the lowest in the world. The demographic crisis faced by South Korea seems hardly the hallmark of the country’s self-proclaimed status as a “global pivotal state.” That said, the country’s fertility rate rose incrementally to a high of 0.75 births per woman in 2024, marking the first time in nine years that any such uptick has been seen.
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I wrote for @TheTLS about a brisk history of automotive design, which prompted me to spend a lot of time looking at pictures of cars built before I was born. https://t.co/XIHigG85OI
I wrote for @WSJBooks about Rachel Syme’s fun, giftable guide to the art of letter-writing. https://t.co/k9CbCX824u
I wrote for the Spectator about Masayoshi Son, who according to his biographer Lionel Barber is ‘probably the most powerful mogul of the 21st century who is not a household name’. https://t.co/yQwteYlJ2O
