2010年2月5日 · I n 1842, with eight highly productive years of writing still ahead of him, Balzac wrote a preface to his Comédie humaine, which already comprised dozens of books.He …

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The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time by Karl Polanyi. Penguin, 358 pp., £10.99, June 2024, 978 0 241 68555 6

On the first day of his second term as US president, Donald Trump described Gaza as a ‘phenomenal location on the sea’. Living in a tent close to the beach in southern Gaza, my …

3 天之前 · Hamas: The Quest for Power by Beverley Milton-Edwards and Stephen Farrell. Polity, 331 pp., £17.99, June 2024, 978 1 5095 6493 4

The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham by Lucy Hughes-Hallett. Fourth Estate, 630 pp., £30, October 2024, 978 0 00 812655 1

Hospitality, Volume 2 by Jacques Derrida, edited by Pascale-Anne Brault and Peggy Kamuf, translated by Peggy Kamuf. Chicago, 261 pp., £36, April 2024, 978 0 226 83130 5

The Price of Victory: A Naval History of Britain 1815-1945 by N.A.M. Rodger. Allen Lane, 934 pp., £40, October 2024, 978 0 7139 9412 4

LRB Selections 1: Frank Kermode ‘Papers speak through their writers. And of all the London Review’s writers Frank Kermode was the one through whom we spoke most often and most …