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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 01/10/2026
The poet, translator and physician Dr. Fady Joudah will give this year’s Edward W. Said London Lecture, titled ‘Notes on Solidarity’, on 15 October at the Royal Geographical Society. Tickets here: mosaicrooms.org/edward-w-sai...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 30/09/2026
Issue 48.18 is now online, featuring: Ian Penman on Anthony Burgess @tomstevenson.bsky.social on invasion scenarios @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on party finances Sheila Fitzpatrick on life during the Leningrad siege and @malcolmgaskill.bsky.social on zoos. Read online now at www.lrb.co.uk
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 21/09/2026
Elizabeth David and... is a new series of events at the @warburginstitute.bsky.social, presented in partnership with the 𝘓𝘙𝘉. The series examines the cultural legacy of Elizabeth David and her influence on British cookery and food writing. Tickets here: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 16/09/2026
Issue 48.17 is now online, featuring: Andrew O’Hagan on Anita Brookner Adam Mars-Jones on Marlon James Richard Lloyd Parry on North Korea Susan Pedersen on Oxbridge dons Thomas Meaney on the West Ferdinand Mount on immigration and Kasia Boddy on Laurie Colwin. Read online now at www.lrb.co.uk
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 16/09/2026
UK subscribers should now have received vol. 48 issue 16, aka this one. We’re sorry about the postal delays. If your copy 𝘩𝘢𝘴𝘯’𝘵 arrived yet, it’s probably stuck in a Royal Mail black hole. Please email lrb@subscription.co.uk and ask for a replacement copy.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 09/09/2026
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 09/09/2026
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 06/09/2026
In our latest issue, @jamesmeek.bsky.social writes about gentrification, regeneration and Britain’s social housing crisis. Read here: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 02/09/2026
Issue 48.16 is now online, featuring: James Meek on social housing Nick Richardson on fairies Chal Ravens on slacker pop Colin Burrow on Helen Vendler Emily Witt on Rachel Cusk Lucy Wooding on Thomas Arundel and Thomas Jones on Leonardo Sciascia. Read online now at www.lrb.co.uk
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 02/09/2026
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 31/08/2026
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 31/08/2026
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 30/08/2026
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 29/08/2026
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 29/08/2026
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 28/08/2026
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 26/08/2026
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 23/08/2026
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 20/08/2026
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 18/08/2026
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 17/08/2026
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 16/08/2026
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 15/08/2026
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 13/08/2026
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 12/08/2026
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 11/08/2026
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 05/08/2026
Tell me about a complicated magazine. Try the 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘯 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴 for three months, in print and online, for just £6. subscription.lrb.co.uk/offers/social
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 05/08/2026
Issue 48.14/15 is now online, featuring: @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social on Nolan’s 𝘖𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘺 T.J. Clark on the Chauvet cave paintings Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite on the general strike of 1926 @will-davies.bsky.social on Neets and Alan Hollinghurst on Ronald Firbank. Read online now at www.lrb.co.uk
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 03/08/2026
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 03/08/2026
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 02/08/2026
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 02/08/2026
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 01/08/2026
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 01/08/2026
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 31/07/2026
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 28/07/2026
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 28/07/2026
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 20/07/2026
In a recent episode of ‘On Politics’, James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social was joined by @patrickmaguire.bsky.social and @will-davies.bsky.social to discuss the prospects for a Burnham administration. Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 17/07/2026
In a recent episode of ‘On Politics’, James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social was joined by @patrickmaguire.bsky.social and @will-davies.bsky.social to discuss the prospects for a Burnham administration. Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 16/07/2026
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 15/07/2026
Issue 48.13 is now online, featuring: Ray Monk on Einstein @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and @lucasamin.bsky.social on Palantir David Runciman on gerontocracy Jonathan Coe on Alfred Hitchcock and @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social on Native American art. Read online at www.lrb.co.uk
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 07/07/2026
John Lanchester reviewed George Cottrell’s book, 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘰 𝘓𝘢𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺: 𝘈 𝘎𝘶𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘓𝘢𝘸 𝘌𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵, 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘺𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘴,in the 𝘓𝘙𝘉 in May. Read here: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 03/07/2026
Sarah Howe and Sandeep Parmar will be at the @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk on Wednesday with Sophie Robinson and Oluwaseun Olayiwola for a live episode of their new 𝘓𝘙𝘉 podcast, ‘Poetry and the Turning World’. Tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/sex-poetry...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 01/07/2026
Issue 48.12 is online now, featuring: @will-davies.bsky.social on Andy Burnham Marina Warner on Celia Paul @alicehunt.bsky.social on Catherine of Braganza @muhammadshehada.bsky.social on Palestine’s future Seamus Perry on Michael Longley and Colin Burrow on pedantry. Read online at www.lrb.co.uk
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 17/06/2026
Issue 48.11 is online now, featuring: Simon Skinner on the World Cup @tricialockwood.bsky.social at a tradcath wedding
 Steven Shapin on the physicist Luis Alvarez Mark Ford on John Berryman Adam Thirlwell on Maxim Gorky and Joanna Biggs on Lena Dunham. Read online at www.lrb.co.uk
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 27/05/2026
Issue 48.10 is now online, featuring: Stefan Collini on the crisis in universities Lili Owen Rowlands on Agnès Varda Greg Afinogenov on Russian ideologies Rahmane Idrissa on the Sahara and @jamesmeek.bsky.social on Andy Burnham. Read online at www.lrb.co.uk
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 13/05/2026
Issue 48.09 is now online, featuring: John Lanchester on money laundering @piercepenniless.bsky.social on the local elections Becca Rothfeld on Marlen Haushofer @tomstevenson.bsky.social on the war in Afghanistan and Robert Cioffi on Ptolemaic Egypt. Read online at www.lrb.co.uk
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 12/05/2026
What do you think of Close Readings? Close Readings is the podcast where LRB contributors read and discuss key works of literature, history and culture. Whether you’re a long-term subscriber or you’ve just listened to a few sample episodes, share your thoughts here: www.surveymonkey.com/r/D8NDK5S
Elif Batuman and James Wood, speakers on an LRB Close Readings podcast about Tolstoy
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 29/04/2026
Issue 48.08 is now online, featuring: @lalehkhalili.bsky.social on the Arctic T.J. Clark on Willem de Kooning @will-davies.bsky.social on hyperpolitics @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on the Hungarian election and Andrew O’Hagan on a London mystery. Read online at www.lrb.co.uk
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 15/04/2026
Issue 48.07 is out now, featuring: Eyal Weizman on the destruction of Gaza Ian Penman on the Beach Boys James Lasdun on touring US courts Sarah Resnick on Ágota Kristóf and @xlo.bsky.social on Ben Lerner. Available online now at www.lrb.co.uk
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