Coinciding with the 75th anniversary of John Cade's seminal publication that first reported lithium's antimanic efficacy, we briefly recount the salient findings of the historic paper and draw attention to the important psychiatric research in Britain that reinforced its findings and the critical British opinions that likely impeded its clinical use.

This paper explores the relationship between elegy, national mourning, and the poetics of public grief by taking as an example Jaroslav Seifert's sequence of elegies, Osm dní (Eight Days), published in 1937 to mourn the death of Czechoslovakia's first president, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850–1937). An extraordinary work of poetry—exceptional both in its ambition and in the apparent speed with which it was composed and published—Seifert's Eight Days has largely been forgotten today and remains little known outside of Czech literary criticism. This article offers a reading of the sequence as a modernist elegy, with the purpose of rethinking the multidirectional relationship between poetry, nationalism and public mourning.

Cet article répond aux remarques formulées par Jean-François Chauvard, Luisa Brunori et Jean-Louis Halpérin, Pierre-Cyrille Hautcœur ainsi que Maurice Kriegel sur mon livre The Promise and Peril of Credit, traduit en français sous le titre Juifs et capitalisme. Le livre examine les significations culturelles attachées à la diffusion des instruments de crédit de la finance privée à partir du xviie siècle. Il s’intéresse tout particulièrement à décrire les multiples associations avec les Juifs et l’usure suscitées par ces instruments. Ma réponse s’appuie sur une installation conçue par l’artiste suisse Christoph Büchel, Monte di pietà, présentée à la Fondation Prada au même moment que la 60e Biennale d’Art de Venise en 2024 – une installation qui privilégie les associations libres à une contextualisation analytique ou historique. Par ses allusions ambiguës aux Juifs et à l’État d’Israël en lien avec son thème principal – le rôle de l’endettement dans la guerre et dans la dégradation et l’exploitation humaine –, l’installation renvoie à une question centrale de mon livre, à savoir la persistance et la malléabilité des stéréotypes. Je saisis donc cette occasion pour passer en revue les points saillants de ma recherche sur cette question épineuse et pour parler des formes de contextualisation complémentaires développées par les contributeurs de ce forum.

Since the 2014 Revolution of Dignity, contemporary Ukrainian poets have increasingly used Facebook as a forum for sharing their work. Unlike poets in the United States, where copyright law discourages writers from self-publishing their work, including on social media, Ukrainian poets use Facebook not only to share work in progress, but also to comment and even translate one another's poems. We argue that by using the “distant reading” method of applying statistical tools to a large archive of contemporary poetry, scholars become better close readers. Having created an archive of a large sample of recent Ukrainian poetry posted to Facebook, our article models data-driven tools that help scholars to understand how poetry, written and shared to social media in a time of war, has changed between 2014 and 2022. This novel use of Facebook as a literary tool clearly shows how poetic language changes in a time of war. It also points to ways that the large community of readers on social media has influenced what poets write.

For $g \geqslant 2$, we show that the number of positive integers at most X which can be written as sum of two base g palindromes is at most ${X}/{\log^c X}$. This answers a question of Baxter, Cilleruelo and Luca.

We describe the $J$-invariant of a semisimple algebraic group $G$ over a generic splitting field of a Tits algebra of $G$ in terms of the $J$-invariant over the base field. As a consequence we prove a 10-year-old conjecture of Quéguiner-Mathieu, Semenov, and Zainoulline on the $J$-invariant of groups of type $\mathrm {D}_n$. In the case of type $\mathrm {D}_n$ we also provide explicit formulas for the first component and in some cases for the second component of the $J$-invariant.

JR87, the first respondent, now nine, attended a controlled primary school in Belfast and took part in non-denominational Christian religious education (RE) and collective worship (CW). Her parents described themselves as ‘broadly humanist’ and had not raised their daughter in any religious tradition. Once she began attending school, however, they noticed that she would say a prayer before eating and ask them questions about God and religion. They voiced their concerns to the school about its RE teaching and were told that its provision of RE and CW was ‘bible-based’, followed the core syllabus for education and complied with the relevant legislation. They challenged this, arguing that the relevant legislation contravened their Convention rights under Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Article 2 of Protocol 1 (‘A2P1’). They were successful in the lower court and the Department of Education appealed.