Vignette. Ghassan Tuéni on Pakistan
7 October 2026Vignette. Desert castles of ancient Khorezm
7 August 2026Vignette. Presenting…Iran as coherent…was viewed with suspicion’
6 August 2026Vignette. ‘Top haredi leader calls for Arab rule over Iserael…increased Torah study to protect the country from Arabs’
1 August 2026Vignette. Comment dit-on « félicitations » en jupitérien ?
1 August 2026Vignette. Talks about talks about talks about talks.
1 August 2026Vignette. ‘Compared to Moldova, this is like the Riviera’
3 April 2026Vignette. ‘Kidnapping is part of tourism’
3 April 2026Vignette. Rectify formalism!
3 April 2026Vignette. ‘…who had been sent to his dacha due to drunkenness’
3 April 2026Vignette. A Lebanese Shiïte family that supports Hizbullah begins the day with the Marseillaise
3 April 2026Vignette. ‘Are you not dressing in London nowadays?’—‘No need to dress for fire-fighting’
3 April 2026Vignette. Ve (is that right? —ed.) république offers constitutional advice
3 April 2026Vignette. « Pour moi, Hassan Nasrallah et le pape, c’est la même chose »
3 April 2026Vignette. ‘Democracy should be like vodka. We’ve drunk 100 grams, and that’s good, but if we drink the bottle, well, that’d be bad’
3 April 2026Vignette. ‘Fatwa on handover of precision missiles’
3 April 2026Vignette. Most normal Ha’aretz reporting
3 April 2026Vignette. ‘Protect the ozone layer!’
3 April 2026Vignette. ‘More or less worthy for examination’
3 April 2026Vignette. Mildly confusing comments from Norbert Mao
3 April 2026Vignette. « An 1 de la [révolution progressiste populaire] »
3 April 2026Vignette. Zaher Shah makes a Yank speak French
3 April 2026Vignette. Beyrouth, ma ville
3 April 2026Vignette. Postman, not mediator
3 April 2026Vignette. Pakistan’s democracy medal
3 April 2026Vignette. African renaissance
3 April 2026Vignette. Dress the part
3 April 2026Vignette. Baffling internal Pakistani communications in the Bangladesh liberation war
20 March 2026Vignette. Oriental cooks
19 March 2026Vignette. ‘The Oxford variadic comma’
19 March 2026Vignette. Interpellation(!) helmets(!) watermelons(!)…
19 March 2026Vignette. Meanwhile in Chingola…
19 March 2026Vignette. Gallivanting in 1956
19 March 2026Vignette. Recent remarks by Mani Shankar Aiyar
19 March 2026Vignette. ‘Those who consume fish are Mughals’
19 March 2026Vignette. ‘It would be difficult to say which is worse in Saxony, of their Publick or Domestic Architecture.’
19 March 2026Vignette. Café arabophone
12 March 2026Vignette. The British[sic] Journal of Poultry Sciences
12 March 2026Vignette. An unlikely feminist.
10 March 2026Vignette. Et in Kakania ego.
14 November 2025Vignette. Talk at Puddle • Computational and statistical learning theory for language.
14 November 2025Vignette. Who are you, officer?
14 November 2025Vignette. A live wordcount for LaTeX.
13 September 2025Vignette. Books that lie flat.
13 September 2025Vignette. C.A.R. Hoare at Jowett
13 September 2025Vignette. Drafts in progress.
13 September 2025Vignette. Zone de confinement « Deleuze ».
13 September 2025Vignette. Hoy día es once de septiembre.
11 September 2025Vignette. Multilingualism in Trentino–Alto Adige/Südtirol.
17 August 2025Vignette. Puducherry Police website inauguration parade
17 August 2025Vignette. Plodwatch I.
18 July 2025Vignette. « La population de Jerusalem souhaite la bienvenue au pape Paul VI ».
16 July 2025Vignette. Correspondence on the tomb of Esther and Mordechai.
16 July 2025Vignette. Fresh cookies on demand.
16 July 2025Vignette. From the University Act 1854.
16 July 2025Vignette. Lorsque la télévision française pouvait s'assurer que ses entretiens à l'étranger se déroulaient en français.
16 July 2025Vignette. Minute books of the Philosophical and Jowett Societies in the Bodleian archives.
16 July 2025Vignette. « Un député du Nord appelle à l’intégration du Liban... dans l’OTAN. »
16 June 2025Vignette. Are those eggs in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
16 June 2025Vignette. LaTeX for philosophers.
16 June 2025Vignette. On Paul Mashatile.
16 June 2025Vignette. Songs of the President of Turkmenistan.
16 June 2025Vignette. ‘“Ready, Steady, Cook” will follow at 5pm.’
14 June 2025Vignette. ‘Perhaps it is the sun in the belly.’
14 June 2025Vignette. Indira Gandhi recognises Bangladesh.
14 June 2025Vignette. Le mouton noir.
14 June 2025Vignette. Lentils with sausages.
14 June 2025Vignette. Ottoman senators.
11 June 2025Vignette. ‘The day of refusal to obey an order’.
10 June 2025Vignette. Never believe anything until it is an official statistic.
10 June 2025Vignette. A rough sketch of a BPhil thesis.
9 June 2025Vignette. Programme on Jean Cavaillès, résistant.
9 June 2025Vignette. Doors.
28 May 2025Vignette. The Levesque–van Em Boas invariance thesis.
28 May 2025Vignette. ‘Ahem! Your Excellency, you are in contempt of court.’
11 January 2025Vignette. Arabic signs.
11 January 2025Vignette. British commentators on Syria in early December.
11 January 2025Vignette. High commissions and embassies.
11 January 2025Vignette. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: the fifty-first state?
11 January 2025Vignette. No retreat.
11 January 2025Vignette. The ‘posthumous kidnapp[ing]’ of Pétain.
11 January 2025Vignette. The Indian Institute.
11 January 2025Vignette. The world’s worst champagne pour.
11 January 2025Vignette. Whose letters are published in the LRB?
3 January 2025Vignette. Classical Chinese poems in English.
2 January 2025Vignette. Edwin Cameron on L.C. Steyn.
2 January 2025Vignette. Le décès de Gebran Tuéni.
12 December 2024Vignette. A chicken stew.
9 November 2024Vignette. À nous qui demandons aux Libanais « comment ca va ? »
9 November 2024Vignette. Ariel Rubinstein…
9 November 2024Vignette. Crispy purple broccoli.
9 November 2024Vignette. Décret 71.
9 November 2024Vignette. The Circulaire Peeters.
9 November 2024Vignette. My thesis, explained.
29 June 2024Vignette. Lentils for the garlic-addled.
7 May 2024Vignette. « Le dernier gay ».
20 April 2024Vignette. Calcutta and Mumbai locals.
20 April 2024Vignette. Suspension totale des activités politiques ?
20 April 2024Vignette. The twilight of Privy Council appeals.
20 April 2024Vignette. Sino-British relations.
24 March 2024Vignette. A salmon recipe.
20 March 2024Vignette. On the A1.
5 February 2024Vignette. Land Rover made bicycles.
1 February 2024Vignette. Srinivasan on free speech in universities.
1 February 2024Vignette. Two reviews.
1 February 2024Vignette. ‘I have no quarrel with your decision to close the correspondence on the editorial policy of the EPW (in fact, I suggested it.)’
18 January 2024Vignette. A ‘conundrum of visual perception’.
18 January 2024Vignette. Rory Stewart in the TLS on Afghanistan and plans.
18 January 2024Vignette. « C’est mon devoir. »
17 June 2022Vignette. Daniel Rothschild on Timothy Wiliamson.
17 June 2022Vignette. Henriette Caillaux.
17 June 2022Vignette. Chris Mullin’s diary in the LRB.
2 April 2022Vignette. A ‘review without expedition’.
8 January 2022Vignette. Circular and miscellaneous walks thence and possibly thither.
8 January 2022Vignette. Oxford exam results and school status.
8 January 2022Vignette. The Elizabethan, meticulously digitised.
8 January 2022Vignette. ‘Missing persons bill has gone “missing”’.
6 January 2022Vignette. The plural of octopus…
6 January 2022Vignette. Bernard Williams on Maurice Cowling.
17 December 2021