‘Some victims are thought to lie under the concrete pilings of the dams and motorways that changed the Spanish landscape from the late 1950s onwards.’ Stephen Phelan on the ‘disappeared’ of Spain’s civil war. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

This is (also) what happens when one stops making assumptions about a text and, especially, about who may have written it.

The latest in the fight between Energy Transfer and Greenpeace: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...

L'avevo detto che era un gran libro! In Italiano è uscito per @adelphiedizioni.bsky.social. recuperatelo!

Jonathan Cape has ordered reprints for 150,000 copies of David Szalay’s Booker-winning novel, Flesh, The Bookseller understands 👇 #BookSky

Piazza Fontana #Rolli

‘No measure has succeeded in turning a society in which the rate has fallen below replacement levels into one where it is above 2 again. That has never happened anywhere.’ David Runciman on depopulation, online early from our next issue. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

‘The Romans had passed down to early medieval Europe the belief that crowds were an important source of validation. Hordes of admirers attested to the holiness of relics. Adoring masses confirmed a ruler’s legitimacy.’ Pablo Scheffer on the power of medieval crowds. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

What a piece. One of the best proofs that Cato was right when he said 'Rem tene verba sequentur'. Also, next time they tell me that AI must be integrated into literally everything, I'll say that this is a "bathetically unscholarly corporate-sponsored piece of risible chaff".

On the 50th anniversary of the first broadcast of “Saturday Night Live,” the show celebrated with former cast members Amy Poehler and Tina Fey and a few more surprises. Here’s a recap.