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- No. 10Five pieces this week.11 Oct 2026
- No. 9Five pieces this week, and between them they keep circling the same question: what survives, and in what form.4 Oct 2026
- No. 8This week's five run from three disputed pages of Shakespeare to Sherwood Forest, by way of Lysias writing speeches to win Athenian juries, and two readings of the women the Greeks wrote about: the Amazons, and Herodotus' queens.27 Sept 2026
- No. 7This week's five run from Troy in heavy metal to the succession wars of Westeros and the Mahabharat, by way of Plato and Aristotle on whether justice pays, and Jung and Bergman on the masks we don't take off.20 Sept 2026
- No. 6From this issue the newsletter changes shape.13 Sept 2026
- No. 515 pieces6 Sept 2026
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