London Review of Books
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London Review of Books
WEBEurope’s leading magazine of ideas, published twice a month. Book reviews and essays (and much more online) renowned for their fearlessness, range and elegance.
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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 ...
About the LRB - London Review of Books
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 ...
Christopher Kelly · Someone Else’s Empire: Roman London
WEBJan 5, 2023 · Christopher Kelly. 2444 words. London in the Roman World. by Dominic Perring. Oxford, 573 pp., £40, January, 978 0 19 978900 9. Once upon a time – and certainly before the Roman conquest – Britain was ruled by good King Lud. According to the utterly unreliable History of the Kings of Britain by the 12 th …
Seymour M. Hersh - London Review of Books
WEBDec 9, 2013 · Seymour M. Hersh’s memoir Reporter came out in 2018. Bush and Arthur Moreau’s activities have remained secret, and, as I learned while reporting on this aspect of history, those who knew of his activities at the time remain sceptical that they can be written about today. ‘I’m aware of what you’re referring to,’ one senior defence ...
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
Colin McGinn - London Review of Books
WEBColin McGinn. Colin McGinn a reader in philosophy at University College London, is soon to take up the position of Wilde Reader in Mental Philosophy at Oxford. He is the author of Wittgenstein on Meaning. Philippa Foot (Letters, 3 October) says that I ‘was wrong to suggest that Gavin Lawrence’s work is derived from [Warren] Quinn’s’.
Peter Green · What We Know: Sappho - London Review of Books
WEBNov 19, 2015 · Peter Green. by Diane Rayor. For various reasons, many of them neither literary nor trustworthy, Sappho has always exerted a magnetic yet frustrating attraction on later generations. The frustration is due in part to the fact that her poetry is predominantly private, only a small amount of it has survived, and very little has ever been known ...
John Bayley · ‘Darkness Visible’ is William Golding’s first novel for ...
WEBOct 25, 1979 · 1594 words. Darkness Visible. by William Golding. Faber, 256 pp., £4.95, January 1979, 0 571 11646 9. Borges has written (and it is certainly true of Borges) that the writer is like a member of a primitive tribe who suddenly starts making unfamiliar noises and waving his arms about in strange new rituals. The others gather round to look.
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