Books by LRB Contributing Editors
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Books written by contributing editors to the London Review of Books.
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'Unparalleled and extraordinary . . . A bracing revivification of a crucial lineage in feminist writing' Jia Tolentino'I believe Amia Srinivasan's work will change the world' Katherine Rundell'Rigorously researched, but written with…
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*Shortlist, Debut Fiction, 2023 Nero Book Awards *London, 1894. John and Henry have a vision for a new way of life. But as the Oscar Wilde trial ignites public outcry, everything they long for could be under threat.'Beautifully written'…
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Since 2016, the UK has been in a crisis of its own making: but this is not the fault of Brexit but of a larger problem of our politics. The status of political parties, the mainstream media, public experts and officials have all been…
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Frantz Fanon was born in Martinique, a French colony, in 1925. As a young man, he volunteered to fight in de Gaulle's army for the liberation of France, and trained to become a doctor and psychiatrist. His experiences as a black man under…
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From the Wolfson Prize-winning author of God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic BritainBetween the fall of the Bastille in 1789 and the opening of the Great Exhibition in 1851, history changed. The grand narratives of the…
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What if the year’s most talked about TV show was all about your marriage?Kate, thirty years into her marriage, has a seemingly idyllic metropolitan, North London life.Phoebe, a young screenwriter, is the creator of the year’s…
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From the author of Mayflies, an irresistible, unputdownable, state-of-the-nation novel - the story of one man's epic fall from grace.May 2021. London. Campbell Flynn - art historian and celebrity intellectual - is entering the empire of…
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Women in Dark Times begins with three remarkable women: revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg; German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon; and film icon Marilyn Monroe. The story of these women, bound together by their struggles against…
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THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THIS - WINNER OF THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE AND THE ONLY BOOK SHORTLISTED FOR BOTH THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE AND WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONThe world might be in disarray, but…
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What is the history of ideas - and how has it shaped our world today?THE TIMES BEST IDEAS BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2024'A splendid book: economical, invigorating and surprising' The Times'He has that gift, both as a podcaster and as…
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FROM PRIZE-WINNING CULTURAL HISTORIAN – AN UNMISSABLE ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEPT AND ETHICS OF SANCTUARYSanctuary is an ancient right. But what does it mean today? Drawing on a lifetime of engagement with literature, myth, history and…
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Eating and Being is a history of Western thinking about food, eating, knowledge, and ourselves. In modern thought, eating is about what is good for you, not about what is good. Eating is about health, not about virtue. Yet…
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SOMEONE ELSE’S EMPIRE dispels the myth of a ‘Global Britain’ that punches above its weight in the world. The reality, argues Tom Stevenson, is that Britain lacks even the barest outline of an independent foreign…
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A profound and devastating collection of short stories by Colm TóibínIn The News from Dublin, a beautiful collection of short stories from the bestselling author of Brooklyn and Long Island, Colm…
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**A Sunday Times top ten bestseller****Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2023****Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize for Non-Fiction 2023****Shortlisted for the Slightly Foxed First Biography Prize…
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The Script of the Stones follows a single half-mile clifftop walk on the Gower Peninsula in South Wales – one the author has been making his whole life. It takes fifteen minutes, if you keep moving. But one day Francis Gooding decides…
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Too many of our convictions about the fifty-four nations of Africa come from non-African sources. Western media often treat the continent as a simulacrum of Western anxieties. In contrast, Jeremy Harding focuses on specific historical…
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