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Christine had put her finger on the pulse of cinema. What matters is who it allows – or rather invites – you to be. Christine refused the ...

Newnewspeak

Beyond the warped ingenuity of these Heath Robinson schemes to force ‘free’ competition to happen in closely controlled circumstances, such...

How far should revolutionary thinking be allowed to go? Everything Luxemburg touched she pushed to an extreme – jusqu’à outrance , ‘to the ...

Their research is responsible for one of the most distinctive features of Yakutsk. The majority of its large buildings are raised three or f...

Unlike most authors I find that the date of publication invariably coincides with the moment when my loathing for my book reaches its maximu...

But if it can’t be said exactly how Shakespeare happened, there are contexts that help to throw light. I want to glance at two of them here....

The books continued not to appear

Trevor-Roper was captured by the second, and married into the first. Enemies invariably called him ‘arrogant’. But it seems that he was neve...

It is said that analysts of the fighting in World War Two, concerned at the apparent reluctance to participate or even fire their weapons of...

cop-ed

And yet the Lost and Found series has an irony about it too: what were once intended as ephemera, or as the most informal of documents, to b...

Theophrastus & electioneering

John Lanchester has been writing regularly on the LRB Blog in the run-up to the UK election; today he describes Mosaic, a package used by th...

lrb 30th

The London Review of Books is celebrating its 30th anniversary by making the entire issue available online. John Sutherland has a piece i...

LRB

Jenny Turner has written a review of Your Name Here for the LRB, here .