Daniel Soar
@danielsoar
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An editor at the London Review of Books https://t.co/9bvlv6oj9q
London
Joined October 2007
Sometimes I feel really sorry for the characters in books. Novelists can be bullies and control freaks! So you have to love the great Mexican writer Yuri Herrera, whose latest book I reviewed here
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Seymour Hersh on covert military operations overseen by George H.W. Bush as vice president under Reagan, cutting out the president, Congress and even the CIA. At the heart of it all the shadowy figure of Admiral Art Moreau, who was "just like [Bond's] 'M'"
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RT @StigAbell: I just remembered this email from Donald Rumsfeld and it has brought me joy again.
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Come hear the brilliant Francis Spufford @LRBbookshop tomorrow eve: ice, adventurers, the Soviets, atheists and more
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RT @MachinePix: The 3D illusions of Kokichi Sugihara, an engineering professor at the Meiji Institute for Advanced Study of Mathematical Sc….
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"Chapter 6: I consider the differences between myself and Kafka": @xlorentzen's huge memoir on a napkin http://t.co/lXjyOxWGTH.
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The 4 Ds of online covert action at GCHQ: "Deny Disrupt Degrade Deceive" - scary new story by @ggreenwald
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One of the eight assistants who watched 2900 films for 16 hours a week for Christian Marclay's The Clock (@kg_ubu).
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Greenwald "says he is not yet halfway through the tens of thousands of documents that Snowden gave him" http://t.co/vfQP0kD8fK.
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RT @das_kunk: Syria peace talks end without agreement. Nice legs, though. http://t.co/c1yl1BvyO6.
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RT @e3i5: CIA audiobook: Intelligence Briefings of Presidential Candidates 1952-2004. http://t.co/pnx8wgQixM.
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What matters more, the leaker or the leak? Edward Snowden and the war over the news http://t.co/SO08NyIuo3.
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Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras and Jeremy Scahill's new online magazine, the Intercept, now launched, with NSA pics!
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RT @audenfan: Didn't realize the name for Palantir, the huge-data sorting company comes (with the accent left off the "I") from Tolkien's P….
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Impressively, @christianbok is trying "to write, genetically encode and implant a poem into the DNA of a bacterium" http://t.co/aTW6rfmpJN.
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RT @washingtonpost: These NSA slides explain how the MUSCULAR program collects too much data from Yahoo & Google http://t.co/LKKKU2edL4 htt….
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