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James Pratt and John Smith were the last men hanged in England for the crime of sodomy, reported to the authorities by nosy landlords who later petitioned for clemency. Tom Crewe joins Thomas Jones to explain how exceptional – and unexceptional – the case was, the historical forces that led to the death sentence and the surprising ambivalence many Londoners felt… Play episode

Where does culture come from?
Remembering the Future
Leaving Haiti
Gurle Talk
The Belgrano Diary: Half a Million Sheep Can't Be Wrong
Architecture Repopulated
Introducing: The Belgrano Diary
The Shoah After Gaza
The Acid House Revolution
On Giving Up
On the Jewish Novel
Dr Comfort, Mr Sex
The World's First Author
Protest, what is it good for?
Political Poems: Andrew Marvell's 'An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return …
War in Tigray
Medieval LOLs: Chaucer's 'Miller's Tale'
Proust in English
New TV/Old TV
Was Jane Austen Gay? And other questions from the LRB archive
Byron before Byron
Manutius, the Biblophile's Bibliophile
Camus in the Americas
Patricia Lockwood on Meeting the Pope
What was Orwell for?
Next Year on Close Readings: Among the Ancients II
Next Year on Close Readings: Human Conditions
Next Year on Close Readings: On Satire
The Infected Blood Scandal
The Giant Crypto Fraud
What is British humour anyway?
Colour Revolution at the Ashmolean (sponsored)
Who wrote the dictionary?
War in Gaza
Tom Crewe: Wrestling Days
Into the Volcano
What is 'woke capital'?
Think of a Number
Adolfo Kaminsky, Beyond Borders
Fact-Checking ‘Ulysses’
Amia Srinivasan: The Sucker, the Sucker!
John Lanchester: The Case of Agatha Christie
Terry Castle: Desperately Seeking Susan
Life in Kyiv
Chaucer's Ovid
The Secrets of J. Edgar Hoover
On David Foster Wallace
Inflation Fixation
Cancelled

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The London Review of Books

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