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Table of contents from London Review of Books Vol. 48 No. 14 (31 July 2026)

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The letters page from London Review of Books Vol. 48 No. 14 (31 July 2026)

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If the psychoanalytic encounter is a meeting of two internal worlds, why does the material world matter? Do patients care if a chair is a few inches off? (Some do; others don’t tell me they do but may nevertheless.) Why do I care that there’s a window and enough space to wander in a small circle between sessions if my legs are tired of sitting?

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The man in whose image North Korea was made was formed in very particular circumstances. Over a life corresponding closely to Eric Hobsbawm’s short 20th century, Kim Il-sung faced both the modernity and the chaos of Cold War Asia’s own age of extremes.

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In Francis Spufford’s Nonesuch it isn’t only the author but his characters who can change history. Iris and Geoff learn of a portal that was discovered by a 17th-century alchemist, Hieronymus Dawe, who called it ‘Nonesuch’ because it exists outside space and time.

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