Vignette. Ghassan Tuéni on Pakistan
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3 April 2026 · 99 wordsVignette. Ve (is that right? —ed.) république offers constitutional advice
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3 April 2026 · 12 wordsVignette. ‘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 2026 · 41 wordsVignette. ‘Fatwa on handover of precision missiles’
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3 April 2026 · 24 wordsVignette. ‘Protect the ozone layer!’
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3 April 2026 · 56 wordsVignette. Pakistan’s democracy medal
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3 April 2026 · 56 wordsVignette. African renaissance
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20 March 2026 · 1,602 wordsVignette. Oriental cooks
19 March 2026 · 269 wordsVignette. ‘The Oxford variadic comma’
19 March 2026 · 6 wordsVignette. Interpellation(!) helmets(!) watermelons(!)…
19 March 2026 · 96 wordsVignette. Meanwhile in Chingola…
19 March 2026 · 90 wordsVignette. Gallivanting in 1956
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19 March 2026 · 36 wordsVignette. ‘It would be difficult to say which is worse in Saxony, of their Publick or Domestic Architecture.’
19 March 2026 · 261 wordsVignette. Café arabophone
12 March 2026 · 95 wordsVignette. The British[sic] Journal of Poultry Sciences
12 March 2026 · 16 wordsVignette. An unlikely feminist.
10 March 2026 · 286 wordsVignette. Talk at Puddle • Computational and statistical learning theory for language.
14 November 2025 · 334 wordsVignette. Who are you, officer?
14 November 2025 · 1,091 wordsVignette. Et in Kakania ego.
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13 September 2025 · 53 wordsVignette. A live wordcount for LaTeX.
13 September 2025 · 78 wordsVignette. Zone de confinement « Deleuze ».
13 September 2025 · 21 wordsVignette. Books that lie flat.
13 September 2025 · 39 wordsVignette. C.A.R. Hoare at Jowett
13 September 2025 · 12 wordsVignette. Drafts in progress.
13 September 2025 · 158 wordsVignette. Hoy día es once de septiembre.
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17 August 2025 · 195 wordsVignette. Puducherry Police website inauguration parade
17 August 2025 · 18 wordsVignette. Plodwatch I.
18 July 2025 · 1,464 wordsVignette. From the University Act 1854.
16 July 2025 · 92 wordsVignette. Lorsque la télévision française pouvait s'assurer que ses entretiens à l'étranger se déroulaient en français.
16 July 2025 · 2 wordsVignette. « La population de Jerusalem souhaite la bienvenue au pape Paul VI ».
16 July 2025 · 5 wordsVignette. Minute books of the Philosophical and Jowett Societies in the Bodleian archives.
16 July 2025 · 216 wordsVignette. Correspondence on the tomb of Esther and Mordechai.
16 July 2025 · 52 wordsVignette. Fresh cookies on demand.
16 July 2025 · 58 wordsVignette. Songs of the President of Turkmenistan.
16 June 2025 · 1 wordVignette. On Paul Mashatile.
16 June 2025 · 128 wordsVignette. « Un député du Nord appelle à l’intégration du Liban... dans l’OTAN. »
16 June 2025 · 13 wordsVignette. LaTeX for philosophers.
16 June 2025 · 298 wordsVignette. Are those eggs in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
16 June 2025 · 243 wordsVignette. Lentils with sausages.
14 June 2025 · 124 wordsVignette. ‘Perhaps it is the sun in the belly.’
14 June 2025 · 142 wordsVignette. Indira Gandhi recognises Bangladesh.
14 June 2025 · 84 wordsVignette. Le mouton noir.
14 June 2025 · 4 wordsVignette. ‘“Ready, Steady, Cook” will follow at 5pm.’
14 June 2025 · 6 wordsVignette. Ottoman senators.
11 June 2025 · 75 wordsVignette. ‘The day of refusal to obey an order’.
10 June 2025 · 111 wordsVignette. Never believe anything until it is an official statistic.
10 June 2025 · 48 wordsVignette. A rough sketch of a BPhil thesis.
9 June 2025 · 845 wordsVignette. Programme on Jean Cavaillès, résistant.
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28 May 2025 · 96 wordsVignette. Doors.
28 May 2025 · 39 wordsVignette. The ‘posthumous kidnapp[ing]’ of Pétain.
11 January 2025 · 145 wordsVignette. No retreat.
11 January 2025 · 50 wordsVignette. British commentators on Syria in early December.
11 January 2025 · 44 wordsVignette. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: the fifty-first state?
11 January 2025 · 43 wordsLetter. Letter to Jom.
11 January 2025 · 250 wordsVignette. High commissions and embassies.
11 January 2025 · 102 wordsVignette. Arabic signs.
11 January 2025 · 68 wordsVignette. ‘Ahem! Your Excellency, you are in contempt of court.’
11 January 2025 · 278 wordsVignette. The Indian Institute.
11 January 2025 · 39 wordsVignette. The world’s worst champagne pour.
11 January 2025 · 38 wordsVignette. Whose letters are published in the LRB?
3 January 2025 · 12 wordsVignette. Edwin Cameron on L.C. Steyn.
2 January 2025 · 19 wordsVignette. Classical Chinese poems in English.
2 January 2025 · 8 wordsLetter. A letter on binding.
2 January 2025 · 407 wordsVignette. Le décès de Gebran Tuéni.
12 December 2024 · 716 wordsVignette. Ariel Rubinstein…
9 November 2024 · 402 wordsVignette. The Circulaire Peeters.
9 November 2024 · 170 wordsVignette. Décret 71.
9 November 2024 · 147 wordsVignette. A chicken stew.
9 November 2024 · 372 wordsVignette. À nous qui demandons aux Libanais « comment ca va ? »
9 November 2024 · 213 wordsVignette. Crispy purple broccoli.
9 November 2024 · 119 wordsVignette. My thesis, explained.
29 June 2024 · 170 wordsVignette. Lentils for the garlic-addled.
7 May 2024 · 94 wordsVignette. Calcutta and Mumbai locals.
20 April 2024 · 29 wordsVignette. The twilight of Privy Council appeals.
20 April 2024 · 35 wordsVignette. Suspension totale des activités politiques ?
20 April 2024 · 59 wordsVignette. « Le dernier gay ».
20 April 2024 · 36 wordsVignette. Sino-British relations.
24 March 2024 · 29 wordsVignette. A salmon recipe.
20 March 2024 · 247 wordsVignette. On the A1.
5 February 2024 · 57 wordsVignette. Two reviews.
1 February 2024 · 13 wordsVignette. Srinivasan on free speech in universities.
1 February 2024 · 2 wordsVignette. Land Rover made bicycles.
1 February 2024 · 14 wordsVignette. Rory Stewart in the TLS on Afghanistan and plans.
18 January 2024 · 325 wordsVignette. A ‘conundrum of visual perception’.
18 January 2024 · 402 wordsLetter. Professor Chenoy on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
18 January 2024 · 54 wordsVignette. ‘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 2024 · 52 wordsVignette. « C’est mon devoir. »
17 June 2022 · 44 wordsVignette. Henriette Caillaux.
17 June 2022 · 37 wordsVignette. Daniel Rothschild on Timothy Wiliamson.
17 June 2022 · 121 wordsVignette. Chris Mullin’s diary in the LRB.
2 April 2022 · 4 wordsVignette. A ‘review without expedition’.
8 January 2022 · 3 wordsVignette. Circular and miscellaneous walks thence and possibly thither.
8 January 2022 · 282 wordsVignette. Oxford exam results and school status.
8 January 2022 · 1 wordVignette. The Elizabethan, meticulously digitised.
8 January 2022 · 3 wordsVignette. The plural of octopus…
6 January 2022 · 4 wordsVignette. ‘Missing persons bill has gone “missing”’.
6 January 2022 · 10 wordsVignette. Bernard Williams on Maurice Cowling.
17 December 2021 · 81 words