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‘Food, like sex, is mostly in the head,’ writes John Bayley in the piece which gives this anthology its title. Sure enough, in the LRB’s pages, food has often been a medium to think about ...

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The history-making, ground-breaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young activist who has become the voice of a generation ‘Everything needs to change. And it has to ...

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When they both earn places at Trinity College in Dublin, a connection that has grown between them lasts long into the following years. This is an exquisite love story about ...

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Tucked away along a shady path towards the north-east edge of Hampstead Heath is a sign: Women Only. This is the Kenwood Ladies’ Bathing Pond.

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Ben Jonson’s comedy The New Inn (1629) was, by all accounts, a theatrical disaster: ‘negligently played’ at the Blackfriars Theatre, according to its title page, ‘and ...

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‘Teach these Souls to Fly,’ Blake wrote in a small book of designs. Here is a set of maps for a City that should be, and will be, illuminated by respect for that which ...

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Love, Nina meets Black Books: a wry and hilarious account of life in Scotland’s biggest second-hand bookshop and the band of eccentrics and book-obsessives who work there ...

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FLIGHTS, shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International, is a novel about travel in the twenty-first century and human anatomy. Olga Tokarczuk perfectly intertwines travel ...

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A Guardian Best Book of the 21st Century The powerful second memoir from the twice-Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home ‘Life falls apart. ...