The Woven Child at the Hayward (until 15 May) is the first large-scale retrospective of Bourgeois’s textile works, made from the mid-1990s until her death in 2010. Her work with cloth is varied, prolific and innovative; many pieces offer new iterations of familiar Bourgeois themes – memory, sexuality, identity, the body, pain, love and most ...Nov 30, 2023 · Vol. 46 No. 1 · 4 January 2024. Jonah Goodman’s essay on the ‘national evil’ of the goitre in Switzerland brings to mind what used to be called Derbyshire Neck, referring to the prevalence of goitre in parts of that county up until the early 20 th century ( LRB, 30 November 2023 ). Oct 18, 2023 · The UN expert Francesca Albanese has warned that Israel’s current actions in Gaza constitute a form of ethnic cleansing. The Israeli historian Raz Segal has described the situation in Gaza as a ‘textbook case of genocide’. 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