EVENT: Mark Lilla will be in conversation with Dawn Foster about his new book The Once and Future Liberal at the Bookshop on Wednesday 23 May. Book tickets now. Below, in an extract from the introduction to his book, Lilla sets out the core tenets of his argument that liberal focus on ...

Fifteen years ago, the London Review of Books took the momentous – some said foolish – decision to open an independent bookshop. In just a few short weeks, working according to a brief from the LRB’s chief designer Peter Campbell, a team of architects, builders, shopfitters and ...