2010-12-30 (Thursday)

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Links

1. LRB · David Runciman · Look…

   For this: “a new divide in British public life: between the people who say ‘Look…’ and the people who say ‘So…’”

2. LRB · John Lanchester · Let Us Pay

   On the future of the newspaper industry. Many good nuggets, including: “New York Times, if it stopped printing a physical edition of the paper, could afford to give every subscriber a free Kindle. Not the bog-standard Kindle, but the one with free global data access. And not just one Kindle, but four Kindles. And not just once, but every year.”

3. The battle of Towton: Nasty, brutish and not that short | The Economist

   Fascinating account of a War of the Roses battle from an excavated mass grave. I didn’t know men of the time weren’t much shorter than the average today (people shrank in the Victorian era). (via Kottke)

4. LRB · August Kleinzahler · Diary

   I really enjoyed this description of a road trip in the American West, although it’s for subscribers only.

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