London Review of Books

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Contributors

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Necro-Economics

Letters

Across 8 Mile • James Meek reports from Detroit

9 October

Short Cuts

Who owns the glen?

Not all trees are useful

Two Poems by Lavinia Greenlaw

Sometimes a man has to jump Christopher Harding

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Zeno’s Tortoise

Not-Quite-at-Homeness

Eat your thesaurus, Barthes!

At the Young V&A

Is curiosity good for us?

I would like more gods

Superstar or Supervillain

How to keep count

At the Movies

Big Dead Rock

Diary