A brilliantly varied new selection of D. H. Lawrence’s essays, chosen and introduced by Geoff Dyer For D. H. Lawrence the novel was the pinnacle, ‘the one bright book of ...
‘Nobody knows … nobody knows.’ Elizabeth Bishop said her grandmother’s
remark was the chorus of her childhood. ‘I often wondered what my
grandmother knew that ...
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 ...
A short, fascinating introduction to the concept of attention from Britain’s leading psychoanalyst, author of Missing Out and On Kindness. What we find of interest may ...
Katherine Anne Porter, introduction by Sarah Churchwell
From the publisher:
A collection that gathers together Pulitzer Prize-winning short fiction, including “Pale Horse, Pale Rider”, where a young woman lies in a fever during the influenza ...
John Bayley, Joanna Biggs, Angela Carter, John Lanchester, James Meek, Emma Rothschild, Steven Shapin, Adam Smyth, E.S. Turner, Margaret Visser, Bee Wilson, Francis Wyndham
‘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 ...
It is time to start channelling the spiky superwomen of history to conquer today. It is time to turn to women like Frida Kahlo and Josephine Baker, Hypatia and Cleopatra, ...
Once she reaches her destination, the conversations she has with the people she meets – about art, about family, about politics, about love, about sorrow and joy, about ...
When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, Petya, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear – all have gone deaf, and their dissent becomes coordinated ...
