OCTOBER 2024 PROSPECT

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REGULARS & COLUMNS

THE CULTURE

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The grid Contributors People

Sally Abé, Roy Kerr, Michael MacLeod, Joe Hollier, Julia Ebner During the riots, we saw that

solidarity is action Tayiba Sulaiman Technocrats can’t

stop bad behaviour Sam Freedman When monoculture

leads to monofailure Ethan Zuckerman Diary

Michael Rosen Letters plus In fact The joy of lex: Securonomics

Sarah Ogilvie plus Stephen Collins’s cartoon Philosopher-at-large:

Biden’s self-sacrifice Sasha Mudd Lives Crossword & Bobby Seagull’s

Brain Teaser Brief encounter

John Gilhooly

Forever young

Children’s literature is our gateway to the world Lucy Lethbridge Š Top class

Tracking down Britain’s elusive, and changing, elite Tom Clark Misreading Genesis

What one American novelist gets wrong about the Bible Rhodri Lewis Children of men

How two daughters reckoned with their world-famous fathers Francesca Peacock Ž Books in brief Š Pop: Kamala’s making moves

Laura Barton Film: Agnès Varda la grande

Sukhdev Sandhu TV: Love is blind... or is it?

Imogen West-Knights Stage: Annie Ernaux is

making stomachs turn Kate Maltby Classical notes: Song to song

Ian Bostridge

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Nasser Alkidwa on the day after the Gaza war → Mark Wilding

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What if we all abandoned Elon Musk’s toxic platform? → Thomas van Linge

How hope turned to horror in Venezuela

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