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What are the best novels of all time? What about the best Shakespeare plays? And what do these two lists have in common? What they have in common is that The Guardian has taken a crack at both of them: The 100 Best Novels of all Time All...
Some 80 years ago this week, Operation Road’s End saw the U.S. Navy deep-six no less than five large, captured Imperial Japanese Navy submarines off Hawaii. These included I-203, sunk by USS Caiman (SS-323) on 21 May; I-201 by USS...
Beretta and Ernest Langdon have teamed up on what could be the penultimate Model 92 series defensive pistol. The new 92G Elite Combat LTT is just stacked with competition-grade features. Standard is an Elite LTT slide and frame, LTT G10...
In the Newsletter this weekRant: Screaming down the tracksEvent: Passenger Package Webinar - 28 MayBullshit Meter: Baku - Tbilisi train to restart this monthGood week: Turku will get its tramAlso a good week: My newsletter host, Magic...
The humble 2,800-ton modified Type 12 (Rothesay Class) frigate HMS Yarmouth (F 101) was the oldest of the 24 escorts sent to the South Atlantic to retake the Falklands in 1982. Laid down in 1957, she entered service in March 1960, and...
Ben Berman Ghan Under Review:The Coffin of Honey. Geoffrey D. Morrison. Coach House, May 2026. The world is not the world we know, and yet everything is familiar. The countries and alliances and languages that we have come to expect have...
Trains between the capital of Georgia, Tbilisi, and the capital of Azerbaijan, Baku, were suspended at the time of the COVID pandemic and have not been re-started. Until this month, probably. At talks this week in Baku, governments of...
Kashmir is one of Led Zeppelin's most hypnotic songs, built on a strange guitar tuning, recorded in a remote country house, and lyrically inspired by a drive through the Sahara. Here's the full story.
I got myself a new musical instrument (one of these) and I thought I would give it a spin on a cover song. For reasons that are known only to the subterranean recesses of my own brain, this is the song that immediately recommended...
In the midst of the recent Labour leadership turbulence, on Wednesday May 13 Wes Streeting, who would resign from his position as the UK’s health minister a day later, published the Health bill. Among its provisions are the latest in a...
A friend who is a lifelong New York Knicks fan has been eagerly following the New York Knicks these playoffs. Watching them sweep the 76ers and cruise back into the Eastern Conference Finals got me thinking. Last year, the Knicks also...
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