Law vs lore

A reactionary radical’s case against progress

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Thomas Pynchon’s haunted vision of history

Ian McEwan is strolling through the garden of his Cotswolds manor house. Bees waft drowsily between wildflowers. Plump apples, pears and walnuts bauble the trees. Vibrant cerulean-blue damselflies hov

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