Feb 5, 2010 · I n her short film, The Food Chain (2002), Ariella Aïsha Azoulay asked Israeli officials whether the people of Gaza and the West Bank were suffering from hunger. ‘The state is humanitarian. The army is humanitarian,’ Lieutenant Colonel Itzik Gorevitch of COGAT (Co-ordination of Government Activities in the Territories) told her.

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5 days ago · Hamas: The Quest for Power by Beverley Milton-Edwards and Stephen Farrell. Polity, 331 pp., £17.99, June 2024, 978 1 5095 6493 4

Last week, a trove of leaked documents offered a glimpse into the role that large technology companies have played in Israel’s war on Gaza. Israel’s military campaigns across Palestine and neighbouring countries have long offered the raw material that tech firms needed to build their experiments in surveillance and algorithmic warfare to scale: kill-chain data.

I used to love going to Cafe Otto and many more conventional music venues in London. Now, at 85, I'm going seriously deaf, and even with powerful hearing aids, all music has become a discordant tuneless roar.

The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates and the Unravelling of a Wall Street Legend by Rob Copeland. Macmillan, 352 pp., £22, August, 978 1 5290 7560 1

3 days ago · The government’s support for Heathrow expansion is in keeping with the robotic incantations of economic growth that beam out of every press interview and policy announcement from Labour HQ. Forget the climate emergency. As the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, said when asked to choose between net zero ...

This week on the LRB Podcast, a free episode from one of our Close Readings series. For their final conversation Among the Ancients, Emily and Tom turn to the contradictions of the Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius.

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