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Table of contents from London Review of Books Vol. 48 No. 16 (28 August 2026)

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The letters page from London Review of Books Vol. 48 No. 16 (28 August 2026)

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It was seven o’clock, still light. I took a photograph, zoomed the screen. On the phone the smoke looked dirtier and more yellow, but it also seemed further away. In a wider shot it looked like nothing at all; a close-up showed a dense and unpleasant pall. I scrolled between these images and checked the sky. There was no way to tell how far behind the mountain the fire was.

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Rachel Cusk asks her readers to re-examine what they thought was settled, including, in Life of M, the way each of us relates to the very famous. The celebrity doesn’t need a proper name because she is easy to recognise. She is the avatar of everything we are conditioned to desire: beauty, wealth, Dior.

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The military exercises its power in all areas of Pakistani society. The question​ that faces Pakistan today is no longer ‘Who governs Pakistan?’ It’s ‘How will the field marshal use his power?’ Asim Munir’s personal history gives some clues.

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