JANUARY FEBRUARY 2024 PROSPECT
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REGULARS & COLUMNS
THE CULTURE
PODCASTS
The grid Contributors People
Morgan Trowland, Sahar Afshar, Jacqueline Alnes, Christian Owens Letters plus In fact Diary
Carol Vorderman Steve Bell’s Christmas carol Stephen Collins’s cartoon What I’m teaching my students about AI Ethan Zuckerman
The joy of lex: Monk mode
Sarah Ogilvie The Rwanda policy was always likely to fail David Allen Green Philosopher-at-large:
Is this a just war? Sasha Mudd Lives ‹ Crossword & Bobby Seagull’s
Brain Teaser ‹ Brief encounter
Miriam Margolyes, actor & comedian
Sarabande
An original short story Oliver Soden Ž‹ In dreams I walk with you
A biographer meets her th-century subject Francesca Peacock Ž The Great Crash ‹ ‹
How Sam Bankman-Fried’s world came tumbling down Ian Leslie Ž Troll of the tropics
Laughing in postcolonial Brazil David McAllister ‹ I ain’t got time to bleed
In praise of s action films Scott Jordan Harris Books of the year ‹ ‹ TV: No more TV!
Imogen West-Knights ‹ Film: A church for cinephiles
Sukhdev Sandhu Stage: Under its spell
Kate Maltby Pop: Love once, love again
Laura Barton Classical notes: The sound of gunfire Ian Bostridge
Cover photograph by Sara Morris, post-production by the Retouching Shed
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