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TRYING TO UNDERSTAND TRUMP’S WORLD MAGA and kingship

It hasn’t gone unnoticed, even among the Republican faithful, that America’s presidency—once noted for its constitutional decorum—has begun to resemble a royal court. More...

You made me hate you. I didn’t want to do it

Stephen Games writes We wrote in our last issue about our misgivings with the BBC’s television adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall series and the...

The LRB

When a friend behaves weirdly, it’s not unreasonable to call them on it—true? For decades, we admired the London Review of Books for the...

Wolf Hall: Authenticity and artifice in costume drama

Towards the end of 2024, audiences binge-watched the BBC’s adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy, about the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell...