Forty years since the controversial Spanish constitution of 1978, Rupert Shortt, Hispanic editor at the TLS, discusses the painful evolution of democracy in Spain; Siobhan Magee considers our problematic relationship with farmed animals, namely dairy cows, and crops, such as palm oil; Dwight Garner, a literary critic at the New York Times, offers glimpses into his commonplace book, in which four decades of favourite quotations converse with each other
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Palma Africana by Michael Taussig
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The Shape Of Things To Come
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Life Lessons and Making Sporting History
Early Days And Their Long Shadows
Boundaries Real and Imagined
Visions of Violence
Rock Star, Freak, Agitator
Say What You’re Going To Say
Faint Praise
Birds of a Feather
A Story With Strings Attached
Writers at the Gates of Dawn
Derevaun Seraun! Derevaun Seraun!
Clarity, Honesty, Fluff
Carnival of Darkness
Give Me Your Heart
A Constant State of Foreignness
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