An editor at the London Review of Books lrb.co.uk
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18 Aug 2023
Sometimes I feel really sorry for the characters in books. Novelists can be bullies and control freaks! So you have to love the great Mexican writer Yuri Herrera, whose latest book I reviewed here lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n16/…
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16 Jan 2019
Seymour Hersh on covert military operations overseen by George H.W. Bush as vice president under Reagan, cutting out the president, Congress and even the CIA. At the heart of it all the shadowy figure of Admiral Art Moreau, who was "just like [Bond's] 'M'" lrb.co.uk/v41/n02/seymour-m-…
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13 Dec 2018
I just remembered this email from Donald Rumsfeld and it has brought me joy again.
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24 Oct 2017
Come hear the brilliant Francis Spufford @LRBbookshop tomorrow eve: ice, adventurers, the Soviets, atheists and more lrb.me/2fk
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16 May 2017
The 3D illusions of Kokichi Sugihara, an engineering professor at the Meiji Institute for Advanced Study of Mathematical Sciences.
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12 Mar 2014
"Chapter 6: I consider the differences between myself and Kafka": @xlorentzen's huge memoir on a napkin lrb.co.uk/v36/n06/christian-…
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25 Feb 2014
The 4 Ds of online covert action at GCHQ: "Deny Disrupt Degrade Deceive" - scary new story by @ggreenwald firstlook.org/theintercept/2…
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15 Feb 2014
One of the eight assistants who watched 2900 films for 16 hours a week for Christian Marclay's The Clock ameobatube.wordpress.com/201… (@kg_ubu)
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15 Feb 2014
Greenwald "says he is not yet halfway through the tens of thousands of documents that Snowden gave him" ft.com/cms/s/2/221d11c4-93db…
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15 Feb 2014
Syria peace talks end without agreement. Nice legs, though.
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CIA audiobook: Intelligence Briefings of Presidential Candidates 1952-2004. gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-CIA-Ge…
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12 Feb 2014
What matters more, the leaker or the leak? Edward Snowden and the war over the news lrb.co.uk/v36/n04/daniel-soa…
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10 Feb 2014
Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras and Jeremy Scahill's new online magazine, the Intercept, now launched, with NSA pics! firstlook.org/theintercept/
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23 Dec 2013
Top apology in this morning's FT.
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12 Dec 2013
Didn't realize the name for Palantir, the huge-data sorting company comes (with the accent left off the "I") from Tolkien's Palantír stone.
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8 Nov 2013
Impressively, @christianbok is trying "to write, genetically encode and implant a poem into the DNA of a bacterium" universityaffairs.ca/incredi…
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30 Oct 2013
These NSA slides explain how the MUSCULAR program collects too much data from Yahoo & Google wapo.st/1aDIy8d
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