~hackernews | Bookmarks (10)
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The Call of the Weird
Andrew Lang was in Oxford when he first encountered the living dead. One autumn night in...
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Strike at the Knee: Review of the Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943
Ortona, Christmas Eve, 1943. A thriving Adriatic port only days previously, it now lay in ruins....
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Balzac didn't dare: Tom Crewe on the origins of the gay novel
When we happen across a gay man in the 19th-century novel, we do just that. We...
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In the Shadow of Silicon Valley
Seeing cars with no human inside move through San Francisco’s streets is eerie enough as a...
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In Praise of Difficult Children (2009)
When you play truant you have a better time. But how do you know what a...
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Hooted from the Stage: review of two new books on Keats
Looking back to September 1820, when things had gone badly wrong but not yet so grotesquely...
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A National Evil – the curse of the goitre in Switzerland
As far as the archivist knew, the 48 box files locked in an attic above the...
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Even the Eyelashes: Review of "Empires of the Dead"
The Spanish garrotted Atahualpa, the last Inca emperor of what is now Peru, in 1533, but...
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Painting is Terribly Difficult
Early in 1971, Robert Hughes, recently appointed as Time magazine’s chief art critic, was ripping out...
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When I Met the Pope
The invitation said ‘black dress for Ladies’. ‘You’re not allowed to be whiter than him,’ my...