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A congerie or parliament of lights—a few Tolstoy inspired reflections and a set of photographs of an early summer ride to Landwade and Snailwell

A thought about the "quack, quack" of post-truth EU Referendum talk

Dear Britain: Letters in the Guardian to us all from Elena Ferrante, Slavoj Žižek and other European writers on Brexit

Some Cambridge blues and greens

Simeon Ten Holt—Palimpsest for String Septet (1993)

Anthony Barnett talks to Yanis Varoufakis at Another Europe Is Possible

“Only an atheist can be a good Christian; only a Christian can be a good atheist.”

A faith of the faithless that is an openness to love

"The religion of Christ, but purged of theology and sacraments; a practical religion that would not promise a future bliss, but provide bliss on earth"—Tolstoy

A letter in the Guardian to Jesse Hughes from a fellow Bataclan survivor Ismael El Iraki

The word properly required only for this sentence, not for the next or the next and not the Word of the Lord, nor of any of the Philosophical Fathers