Ian Crouch on Hilary Mantel and the pitfalls of the public lecture: http://nyr.kr/Ya1Lbj

Lauren Collins on Prince Harry and press freedom in Britain: http://nyr.kr/TZKr7x

I was going to spare you all any mention of Prince Harry. But today His Highness’s adventures in Vegas became political, as the Sun, in likely contravention of the Press Complaints Commission Code of Practice, which forbids “intrusions into an individual’s private life,” and in definite contravention of the royal family’s wishes, as articulated by the law firm Harbottle & Lewis, published a set of pictures that, as everyone knows by now, show a naked Prince Harry cuddling a female companion while watching television and cupping his genitals…

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