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Table of contents from London Review of Books Vol. 48 No. 9 (Friday 08 May 2026)

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Tom Stevenson: We were doing well when I left
Many of those who had been involved in the war’s inception saw the chaotic Nato withdrawal in August 2021 as a betrayal both of Afghanistan and of the project of American power in the world. As with Iraq, the war in Afghanistan is not yet widely acknowledged to have been a crime rather than just a mistake, but even the political establishment in the West sees it as a cautionary ...

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Tarn MacArthur: The Clearance of Aoineadh Mòr, 1824
The people of Unnimore thought that ‘flitting’ would not come upon them while they lived. As long as they paid the rent, and that was not difficult to do, anxiety did not come near...

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Diarmaid MacCulloch: Fighting Monks
‘Westerners’ have told themselves a story of their past dominated by a fluke in human history: the rise of a single religion, Christianity, to gain a monopoly over the vast majority of medieval Europe. It’s easy to miss how unusual this is: it has never happened anywhere else in the history of the planet.

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Michael Wood: At the Movies
Meursault, in Camus’s novel, speaks of the ‘absurd’ life he leads. He also says: ‘It’s common knowledge that life is not worth living.’ A man who killed another man for no reason is convicted for the wrong reason. How could this happen? In their way, the novel and François Ozon’s film both invite another question: how could it not?

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