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Love’s Work: James Butler, Rebekah Howes & Rowan Williams
When Gillian Rose’s Love’s Work was published shortly before the author’s death in 1995, Marina Warner wrote in the LRB: ‘This small book contains mu…
1 year, 10 months ago
Harriet Baker & Lauren Elkin: Rural Hours
1917: Virginia Woolf arrives at Asheham, on the Sussex Downs, immobilized by nervous exhaustion and creative block.
1930: Feeling jittery about her wr…
1 year, 10 months ago
Lauren Oyler & Leo Robson: No Judgement
Lauren Oyler is one of our rowdiest and sharpest literary critics, twice causing the LRB website to crash from too much traffic, and author of the no…
1 year, 10 months ago
Joe Dunthorne, Hanan Issa & Manon Steffan Ros: Wales in Words
Three of Wales' best contemporary writers in an early St David's Day celebration of Wales in words. Novelist Joe Dunthorne, National Poet of Wales Ha…
1 year, 10 months ago
Fernanda Eberstadt & Olivia Laing: Bite Your Friends
Fernanda Eberstadt’s Bite Your Friends is both a history of the body as a site of resistance to power, and a subversive memoir, drawing on a cast of …
1 year, 10 months ago
Clair Wills & Alice Spawls: Missing Persons, or My Grandmother's Secrets
When Clair Wills was in her twenties, she discovered she had a cousin she had never met. Missing Persons, or My Grandmother’s Secrets is a detective …
1 year, 11 months ago
Alexandra Harris & Laurence Scott: The Rising Down
Alexandra Harris has previously cast her probing critical eye over poetic and artistic responses to English weather (in Weatherland), and English art…
1 year, 11 months ago
Adam Shatz & Kevin Okoth: The Rebel's Clinic
Frantz Fanon was only 36 when he died in 1961, but his books and ideas – from White Skin, Black Masks to The Wretched of the Earth – have proved last…
1 year, 11 months ago
Rosemary Hill & Rowan Moore: Interwar
At the time of his death in 2017, the architectural critic and historian Gavin Stamp (Private Eye’s ‘Piloti’) had nearly completed his monumental sur…
1 year, 11 months ago
Jason Okundaye & Mendez: Revolutionary Acts
In Revolutionary Acts (Faber), Jason Okundaye meets an elder generation of Black gay men and listens as they share intimate memories and reflect upon…
2 years ago