The 2026 LRB Autumn Lecture in NYC: Lydia Davis on Marcus Aurelius – The Tishman Auditorium at the New School, Wed 28 Oct 2026 - Dying, or Doing Something Else: Reflections on Marcus Aurelius and Othe...

The British Security Service, better known as MI5, released its file on Eric Hobsbawm last autumn...

Author and documentary-maker best known for her 1999 book about CIA-funded cultural espionage Who Paid the Piper?

With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...

Rachel Cusk asks her readers to re-examine what they thought was settled, including, in Life of M, the way each of us...

Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 23 August · 1hr 11min

Gov. Ned Lamont, members of Congress and CT officials outlined plans, again, to provide faster service by 2035 on the New Haven line.

The New York Times has opened applications for its Editing Residency, a one-of-a-kind program aimed at cultivating the next generation of editors. Editing remains a vital newsroom skill that requires…

The most obvious question is not whether J.D. Vance believes what he claims to believe, but why, if he believes it, he...

Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 26 July · 52min

Bill Clinton called the White House the ‘crown jewel of the federal penitentiary system’ but that’s not the way...

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Ben Lerner’s dazzling new novel, Transcription, plays variations on the conflicts and bonds that are felt among three generations.

Bill Clinton called the White House the ‘crown jewel of the federal penitentiary system’ but that’s not the way...

Gavin Newsom describes himself as an ‘accidental politician’. The San Francisco mayor Willie Brown anointed him as...

The Ebola virus is terrifying because it infects most of those who care for the afflicted and kills most of those who...

The almost dreamlike movement of the story of The Ipcress File is at times closer to Ishiguro or even Kafka than your...

David Osenton almost died because of medical mistakes and delays, but new rule allowed Karen to demand a second opinion

Lauren Elkin & Shahidha Bari: Vocal Break

2 bed flat for sale in Hyde Park Gate, London SW7, United Kingdom, Hyde Park,, selling for £1,950,000 from UK Sotheby's International Realty. See property details on Zoopla or browse all our range of ...

From 2000: Tracy Kidder on Paul Farmer’s mission to heal the world, beginning in Haiti: “The fact that the poor are dying of illnesses for which effective treatments exist is, like many global facts o...

The London Review Bookshop is proud to announce the fourth year of the Martha Mills Young Writers’ Prize. Inspired by the curiosity and imagination of Martha Mills, the…

The enduring liberal fantasy that Melania Trump is unwilling, trapped, in need of rescue, #FreeMelania, has never...

As Mary Beard has put it, ‘How could you control and defend a vast empire, stretching from Spain to Syria, with a...

America is a ‘battlefield’, Simone de Beauvoir wrote, ‘and you can only become passionate about the battle it is...

Beryl Bainbridge’s dramas of failed attachment

Pepys was a meticulous – some might say compulsive – record-keeper. Into his diary’s pages went social debts (who...

Pepys was a meticulous – some might say compulsive – record-keeper. Into his diary’s pages went social debts (who...

Pepys was a meticulous – some might say compulsive – record-keeper. Into his diary’s pages went social debts (who...

Pepys was a meticulous – some might say compulsive – record-keeper. Into his diary’s pages went social debts (who...

Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 12/03/2025 · 54m

Matthew Power was an award-winning journalist who reported empathetically on the human […]

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The 2025 LRB Autumn Lecture: a new annual lecture in New York

For all the fluency and synthetic friendliness of public-facing AI chatbots like ChatGPT, it seems important to remember...