Read Royal Bodies: Writing about the Windsors from the London Review of Books

Royal Bodies: Writing about the Windsors from the London Review of Books

Sam Kinchin-Smith

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Description:‘I used to think the interesting question was whether we should have a monarchy or not. But now I think that question is rather like, should we have pandas or not?’ – Hilary Mantel ‘People sometimes ask me why I moan on so much about the royal family,’ Glen Newey wrote on the LRB blog in 2013. ‘Aren’t there more important things to worry about, like war, political repression, man-made climate change or Arsenal’s exit from the Champions League? To give the short answer, yes. But in a funny way, no.’ As the pieces in this selection make clear, the LRB hasn’t taken a clear editorial stance on the monarchy over the last forty years. A subscriber showed up at our office almost speechless with rage when we published Newey’s essay included here, ‘About as Useful as a String Condom’. Did we realise that his wife read the paper? This book is not for him. Other unhappy readers feel that we have the opposite problem: not a lack of deference to the Windsors, but a surfeit of it. This book is not for them, either.Featuring: Jenny Diski, William Empson, Paul Foot, Thomas Jones, Hilary Mantel, Ferdinand Mount, Caroline Murphy, Tom Nairn, Glen Newey and Bee Wilson.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Royal Bodies: Writing about the Windsors from the London Review of Books. To get started finding Royal Bodies: Writing about the Windsors from the London Review of Books, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 103

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: LRB

Release: 2018

ISBN: 1999636104

Description: ‘I used to think the interesting question was whether we should have a monarchy or not. But now I think that question is rather like, should we have pandas or not?’ – Hilary Mantel ‘People sometimes ask me why I moan on so much about the royal family,’ Glen Newey wrote on the LRB blog in 2013. ‘Aren’t there more important things to worry about, like war, political repression, man-made climate change or Arsenal’s exit from the Champions League? To give the short answer, yes. But in a funny way, no.’ As the pieces in this selection make clear, the LRB hasn’t taken a clear editorial stance on the monarchy over the last forty years. A subscriber showed up at our office almost speechless with rage when we published Newey’s essay included here, ‘About as Useful as a String Condom’. Did we realise that his wife read the paper? This book is not for him. Other unhappy readers feel that we have the opposite problem: not a lack of deference to the Windsors, but a surfeit of it. This book is not for them, either.Featuring: Jenny Diski, William Empson, Paul Foot, Thomas Jones, Hilary Mantel, Ferdinand Mount, Caroline Murphy, Tom Nairn, Glen Newey and Bee Wilson.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Royal Bodies: Writing about the Windsors from the London Review of Books. To get started finding Royal Bodies: Writing about the Windsors from the London Review of Books, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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