London Review of Books1 天
Two Days in Pittsburgh
At PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh on 4 November, teams of ushers were handing out signs that said: ‘Trump will fix it.’ They didn’t allow homemade signs because it was a safety risk, they said, though ...
London Review of Books13 天
Ysenda Maxtone Graham: 10 Rillington Place 10 Rillington Place
The story of 10 Rillington Place is a story that will not settle, because we will never know the full truth of ...
London Review of Books1 年
On David Foster Wallace
In her recent piece for the paper, Patricia Lockwood revisits David Foster Wallace’s work in the light of posthumous publications and the shadow of #MeToo. Lockwood joined Joanne O’Leary, an editor at ...
London Review of Books2 天
Ian Penman and Jennifer Hodgson: It Gets Me Home, This Curving Track
Music critic Ian Penman is back with a pioneering book of essays alluding to a lost moment in musical history ‘when cultures collided and a cross-generational and “cross-colour” awareness was born’.
London Review of Books4 天
In Washington DC
The next morning, the city was silent. DC is openly hostile to Trump: more than 90 per cent of voters backed ...
London Review of Books6 天
Close Readings
What kind of satirist was Jane Austen? Her earliest writings satirise romantic novelistic conventions, but her mature fiction goes far beyond this, taking the fashion for passionate sensibility and ...
London Review of Books2 年
What the Welsh got right
Your browser does not support the audio element. Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite talks to Tom about how events in the 1960s, including the Aberfan disaster and a shift ...
London Review of Books5 天
The LRB Podcast
The great auk was a flightless, populous and reportedly delicious bird, once found widely across the rocky outcrops of the North Atlantic. By the 1860s it was extinct, its decline sharpened by ...
London Review of Books2 年
Modern-ish Poets: Charlotte Mew
Seamus Perry and Mark Ford look at the life and work of Charlotte Mew, who brought the Victorian art of dramatic monologue into the 20th century, and whose difficult experiences are often refracted ...
London Review of Books1 年
Jacqueline Rose and James Butler: The Plague
David talks to Mark Ford and Seamus Perry, hosts of Political Poems, about what makes a great political poem. Can great poetry be ideological? How much does context matter? And is it possible to tell ...
London Review of Books13 天
La Chasse au Pinard
At the beginning of the 20th century, the French ‘drank substantially more than any other people in the world’.
London Review of Books1 年
The Case of Agatha Christie
Your browser does not support the audio element. Agatha Christie, writes John Lanchester, ‘is the only writer by whom I’ve read more than fifty books. So – why ...