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WEBThe London Review of Books is Europe’s leading magazine of culture and ideas.Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of the world’s best writers to explore a wide variety of subjects in exhilarating detail – from art and politics to science and technology via history and philosophy, not to mention fiction and poetry.In the age of the long read, the LRB remains the pre ...
I was there to inflict death - London Review of Books
WEBJan 5, 2023 · ‘I have clandestine conversations with supposedly nonexistent personages,’ Alicia Western tells her psychiatrist in Stella Maris, the second of two novels by Cormac McCarthy published this autumn.The leader of these phantoms is called the Thalidomide Kid. He’s a bit over three feet tall (Alicia measured this by comparing their shadows), has a bald and scarred head and flippers for hands.
The Paper - London Review of Books
WEBByzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender and Race in the Middle Ages by Roland Betancourt. Princeton, 274 pp., £28, March 2023, 978 0 691 24354 2
LRB Blog
WEBThe Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury died yesterday at the age of 76. When his early book The Little Mountain (1977) was translated into English in 1988, Edward Said – contrasting him with Naguib Mahfouz – described Khoury in the LRB as a ‘politically committed, and, in his own highly mobile modes, brilliant figure’.A journalist, publisher and ‘highly perceptive critic’ as well as a ...
Brandon Taylor · Is it even good? Two Years with Zola
WEBApr 4, 2024 · Brandon Taylor’s proposal that Zola’s Rougon-Macquart novels should be read not in publication order but in a sequence dictated by the fictional lives of their protagonists owes much, as Taylor acknowledges, to Ernest Vizetelly (LRB, 4 April).But Vizetelly’s priority was to market the translations of Zola’s novels. By grouping them in mini-series, he hoped to counter resistance to ...
Literature & Criticism - London Review of Books
WEBNov 14, 2017 · A Child Let Loose. Writing about children’s literature by Joan Aiken, Bee Wilson, Marina Warner, Wendy Doniger, Rosemary Hill, Jenny Turner, Marghanita Laski, Andrew O’Hagan, Jenny Diski and Gillian Avery. Collection.
The Rise and Fall of Thatcherism - London Review of Books
WEBPeter Clarke (LRB, 10 December 1998) manages a lengthy assessment of Thatcherism without once mentioning the miners’ strike of 1984-85. Lest we forget, this strike to save jobs almost stopped Thatcher in her tracks when the dockers came out in sympathy in the summer of 1984. Only the wavering of other trade-union leaders let her off the hook.
Podcasts - London Review of Books
WEBBrent Hayes Edwards and Adam discuss the ‘ur-text of Black political philosophy’, W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk. Spanning autobiography, history, biography, fiction, music criticism and ... Political Poems: ‘Goblin Market’ by Christina Rossetti, feat. Shirley Henderson and Felicity Jones. 28 August 2024.
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