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‘There is something to see in each picture – the rigging, the rocks, the crowds, the crews. The wreckage and the rescue. The vast structures built by men and the vaster arm of the sea.’ Alice Spawls on a collection of shipwreck photography: https://t.co/D18SaD0E2k https://t.co/ZC6sQSYEm0

Sexy content inside, sexy covers outside. https://t.co/x40IhMtG0s

‘Most people in the developed West hide from the reality of death, and those who don’t, those who make a living from it, are hidden from us.’ @malcolmgaskill on the death trade: https://t.co/b5OJjxpNc7

‘Perhaps what people crave most from village life is coherence. They emulate those who grew up with everything in one place: a bit of land, a horse, a cow and chickens, a mother in the kitchen and a father out all day with his axe.’ @LaviniaGreenlaw: https://t.co/HOJjE812i4

The slippery question at the heart of the novel is what happens to an independent nation when colonisers are replaced by multinational corporations, who exploit the country with the help of the local elite? Kevin Okoth reads ‘Glory’ by NoViolet Bulawayo: https://t.co/YW2GnUfi5r

‘Apocalypse for the Greeks and Romans was not a call to prepare for a heavenly kingdom, but closer to its modern, colloquial sense and part of a broader philosophical effort to improve life in the present.’ Robert Cioffi on the end of the world: https://t.co/z943SUCG0t

"To be an aspiring writer, after all—or, you should say, a writer, full stop, no qualifications; if you write, then you are a writer, or so you’ve been told—is to be caught up in a maelstrom of contradictory advice." (via @CatapultStory) https://t.co/78iWTjzl3z

A gang of vigilantes, a freak accident, a really dope playlist, and more of the best book deals of the day: https://t.co/D9exOJrNH6

Our Week in Reviews (featuring titles from @WestholmePub, @BelgraviaB, @AmazonPub, @simonschuster, and @penguinpress): https://t.co/2bmxpGvKTJ https://t.co/LHOsJjiSsR

No plans this weekend? We have an idea! https://t.co/Q6469t4AzH

‘By the time Picasso came to deconstruct and reimagine Ingres’s painting, Cubism had dynamited perspective, so that Marie-Thérèse Walter and her surroundings could all exist more or less in the same plane.’ Julian Barnes at the @NationalGallery: https://t.co/jgA4FtzGmk

‘Nickel is required for long-range electric cars. The batteries in a single Tesla contain about forty kilos of it. The Indonesian state, unsurprisingly, is very enthusiastic about the shift to electric vehicles.’ Adam Bobbette in Sorowako: https://t.co/19ya3KEAOd

For Jenny Diski, the end of an affair promises the repossession of space alongside melancholia: ‘There must be sadness at the break-up; am I telling myself lies? No. The sadness is there, all right, but in a different compartment from the excitement.’ https://t.co/MYdkWfUeXc https://t.co/JHnHlD5hq8

Barbara Everett’s 2007 examination of Shakespeare’s romances, meanwhile, identifies the sea as ‘the greatest maker and breaker of all: random, deranging, the end and the beginning of human life’: https://t.co/AKiFj9QUho https://t.co/tVLFH9nTGP

We continue ‘Breaking Points’, our summer-break newsletter tour through the LRB archive, with an exploration of breakups – boundaries of the self, life and love, romance and relationship: https://t.co/DWUbIGWmaS