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Table of contents from London Review of Books Vol. 48 No. 20 (23 October 2026)

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The letters page from London Review of Books Vol. 48 No. 20 (23 October 2026)

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You can’t identify a Wagner enthusiast just by looking at someone, especially if they are in swimwear. As I studied the other guests at the baths, it seemed possible that none of them had ever thought about Wagner, that they were able to order a Lohengrinsalat at the adjoining restaurant, Bistro Elsa, without Wagner crossing their minds. It seemed unlikely, though. To be in or e...

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Missouri Williams’s The Vivisectors presents a bleak view of academic institutions. Its scholars are fraudulent and vain: ‘Their activity was a sham. All they did was generate piles of useless papers that they used to justify the continued existence of their departments.’ The university is little more than a breeding ground for a vapid politics of victimisation.

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The last time Tom Cruise played a villain seriously was more than two decades ago, silver-haired and wolfish as a hitman in Michael Mann’s Collateral (2004) – the last chill of sociopathy before his Herculean efforts at reputation laundering began. There’s a reason Digger’s prosthetics look like one of the latex masks Cruise peels off in the Mission Impossible films: he’s not me...

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