‘She claims to speak French, German and Italian, but her encounters with French, German and Italian speakers suggest otherwise.’
@deborahfriedell.bsky.social on Melania Trump.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Hegseth confirms “the first sinking of an enemy ship by a torpedo since WWII.” I guess he missed the LRB podcast on the sinking of the Belgrano? www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
‘She was an executive producer on 𝘔𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘢, with editorial control, yet the film often seems as though it’s been edited by someone who despises her.’
@deborahfriedell.bsky.social on Melania Trump.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
"In 1884-5 Gilles de la Tourette, a pupil of Charcot, described the astonishing syndrome which now bears his name"
Oliver Sacks in the LRB archive: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v0...
On Wednesday, @jamesmeek.bsky.social will be at the @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk to discuss his latest novel, ‘Your Life Without Me’ with Lara Pawson.
Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/james-meek...
Same thought -- especially after reading @moonjets.bsky.social on 'Lives of the Caesars' www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
The lecture that I gave on January 16 in London, the second of the LRB Winter Lectures, is now available online. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Or it's a reporter. (Amazon isn't making screeners available to the press.)
Keeping the flame of civilisation burning, I wrote about what's really important (English novelists in the Seventies and Eighties) - harpers.org/archive/2026...
‘Editors silently rewrote passages that seemed tawdry, or just left them out; it was routine to excise Pepys’s sexual escapades while preserving his wife’s rages, which just made her seem unhinged.’
@deborahfriedell.bsky.social on Samuel Pepys’s diary.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘In February 1660, Pepys noted that the government was so unpopular that “boys do now cry ‘Kiss my Parliament’ instead of ‘Kiss my arse.’”’
@deborahfriedell.bsky.social on the decipherment of Samuel Pepys.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
A book I especially loved this year: "The Strange History of Samuel Pepys's Diary" by @kateloveman.bsky.social.
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“the diary became Pepys’s secret ledger, the place for him to record bribes (‘considerations’) and the elaborate justifications he might one day need to defend them.”
@deborahfriedell.bsky.social in @lrb.co.uk
To go after a family for no other reason than that their daughter sparked sympathy is appalling. Absolutely appalling. Beyond cruelty into outright sadism.
thank you for posting!
In this week’s episode of the LRB podcast I speak with the filmmaker Sepideh Farsi about her new documentary, ‘Put Your Soul in Your Hand and Walk,’ a portrait of Fatma Hassona, a photographer in Gaza who was killed in an Israeli air strike on April 15. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Writers! Applications for the Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award are open. This year, we've increased the prize to $15,000 to account for the higher cost of pasta. Apply now: journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/awa...
Join us at our Christmas Late Shopping Evenings on 3, 10, and 18 December and get 10% off all books bought on the night. Our neighbours at St. JOHN will also be open late for festive food and drink purchases.
Attendance is free! Tickets here:
On 27 October @adamtooze.bsky.social will give the inaugural 𝘓𝘙𝘉 Autumn Lecture in New York on the subject of Electrostates, Petrostates & the New Cold War.
Book now:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nyc-lectur...
I love the @lrb.co.uk “Close Readings” podcast, so it was a total treat to do this episode with @moonjets.bsky.social & Colm Tóibín on Henry James -- even if Colm remains inexplicably blind to the charms of Lord Warburton & his moat. www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
Based on the novel "Box Hill" by none other than Adam Mars-Jones! @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
The case is being brought by a public interest law firm, which represents clients free of charge (but which would very much appreciate donations). More information here: ij.org/press-releas...
(Sorry -- reposted with proper link!)
Tony Harrison's V.: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v0...
Tony Harrison's 'V.' was first published in the London Review of Books in 1985. The front page of the Daily Mail reported on the 'FOUR LETTER TV POEM FURY.'
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v0...
'Welcome to my last four years.' A search for accountability and a full, detailed explanation for Martha's death . . . www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Just saw this!!!!!
‘Israel’s allies are still buying time for Israel to change course or come to a deal with Hamas over how many trucks to allow in, as though food were a legitimate bargaining chip. Gazans cannot afford to wait for either.’
New on the blog: Amjad Iraqi on Gaza.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
On the Bayeux Tapestry, Anglo-French relations, Macron, European borders, small boats and British warships, from seven years ago www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
The cartoonist Jules Feiffer once wrote that Superman’s real home wasn’t Krypton but “the planet Poland, from Lodz maybe, possibly Crakow, maybe Vilna.”
Of course Superman is an immigrant. I wrote about him for the @newyorker.com in 2013: www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
