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About the LRB - London Review of Books
WEBAbout the. LRB. The 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 ...
Randall Kennedy · Browbeating: Congress v. Harvard - London …
WEBJan 25, 2024 · This delight has been on full display during the humiliation of the three university presidents. What’s urgently needed are academic leaders who, while willing to be self-critical, are better able to defend themselves against unfair attack. Randall Kennedy is the Michael R. Klein Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.
The Belgrano Diary - London Review of Books
WEBMar 28, 2024 · A new six-part podcast series, hosted by Andrew O’Hagan. Listen here or wherever you get podcasts. The Belgrano affair reaches its climax as the stories of Narendra Sethia and Clive Ponting connect. The two whistleblowers appear in court and the diary makes its final journey. Lieutenant Sethia is accused of …
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 ...
Alan Bennett · Diary: On failing to impress the queen
WEBJan 5, 2023 · Alan Bennett’s first play, Forty Years On, was produced in 1968; his most recent, Allelujah!, in 2018.His annual diary has appeared in the LRB since 1983.The Lady in the Van was first published in the paper, and the LRB has also carried some of his Talking Heads monologues, as well as short stories, pieces of memoir and reviews.House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries came out in 2022.
William Empson - London Review of Books
WEBWilliam Empson, who died in 1984, was one of the most important literary critics of the 20th century. His books include Seven Types of Ambiguity, Some Versions of Pastoral, The Structure of Complex Words and Milton’s God.His Complete Poems are available from Penguin. He wrote in the LRB on Ulysses, his fellow critics I.A. Richards and Frank Kermode, Elizabethan spirits, teaching in the Far ...
Podcasts - London Review of Books
WEBSep 4, 2024 · Brent 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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After the British Library Cyberattack - London Review of Books
WEBApr 4, 2024 · Robert Crawford’s list of book titles and categories subjected to the British Library cyberattack was so like a naturally occurring OuLiPo exercise that it prompted me to use their technique of N+7 on the quotation heading the text (LRB, 4 April).Replacing nouns by those occurring seven nouns later in a small dictionary (plus or minus four as a …