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The LRB at 40: Mary-Kay Wilmers, Alan Bennett, Andrew O'Hagan, John Lanchester and Sheng Yun
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the London Review of Books, and mark the publication of The London Review of Books: An Incomplete History, the L…
6 years, 6 months ago
Bee Wilson: Mmmm, chicken nuggets
Bee Wilson on eating out in late Victorian London.
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6 years, 6 months ago
James Wood: These Etonians
James Wood recalls his time at the college, with David Cameron, Boris Johnson, Jacob Rees-Mogg and others.
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6 years, 7 months ago
Andrew O'Hagan: The Lagerfeld Fandango
Andrew O'Hagan goes to the fashion designer's memorial at the Grand Palais in Paris.
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6 years, 8 months ago
Mary Wellesley: 'This place is pryson'
Mary Wellesley looks inside the cell of a medieval anchorite, and considers why so many women shut themselves away to devote themselves to prayer and…
6 years, 10 months ago
Colm Tóibín: ‘It’s curable,’ he said
‘Instead of shaking all over, I read the newspapers. I listened to the radio. I had my lunch.’ Colm Tóibín reads his account of being treated for can…
6 years, 11 months ago
Alan Bennett: Diary for 2018
Alan Bennett puts on a new play and finds himself on someone’s arm, in his 2018 diary.
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7 years, 3 months ago
Rosemary Hill: The Dress in Your Head
Rosemary Hill explores frock consciousness in life and literature in her LRB Winter Lecture, delivered at the British Museum.
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8 years ago
Linda Colley: The Problem with Winning
Linda Colley argues that the prospect of Brexit makes history more important than ever in her LRB Winter Lecture, delivered at the British Museum.
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8 years, 1 month ago
Anne Enright: The Genesis of Blame
Anne Enright delivers her Winter Lecture on the corruptions of the Adam and Eve story in her LRB Winter Lecture, delivered at the British Museum.
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8 years, 1 month ago