The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of ...

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Circumstantial evidence (defective internal logic, uncontrolled tone, bizarreness for its own sake) suggests that ...

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‘Tam o’ Shanter’ first appeared as a lengthy footnote in Francis Grose's Antiquities of Scotland (1791) after Robert Burns convinced Grose to include the ruined Alloway Kirk in his volume, and its ...