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London Review of Books

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British journal of literary reviews

London Review of Books
EditorJean McNicol, Alice Spawls
CategoriesLiterature,history,ideas[1]
Frequency24 per year
Circulation73,378 (ABC: 2024)
PublisherReneé Doegar
Founded1979; 46 years ago (1979)
CountryUnited Kingdom
Based inBloomsbury,London
LanguageEnglish
Websitewww.lrb.co.uk
ISSN0260-9592

TheLondon Review of Books (LRB) is a Britishliterary magazine published semimonthly that features articles and essays onfiction andnon-fiction subjects, which are usually structured asbook reviews.[2]

History

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TheLondon Review of Books was founded in 1979,[2] when publication ofThe Times Literary Supplement was suspended during the year-longlock-out atThe Times.[3] Its founding editors wereKarl Miller, then professor of English atUniversity College London;Mary-Kay Wilmers, formerly an editor atThe Times Literary Supplement; andSusannah Clapp, a former editor atJonathan Cape. For its first six months, it appeared as an insert inThe New York Review of Books.[4] It became an independent publication in May 1980. Its political stance has been described byAlan Bennett, a prominent contributor, as "consistently radical".[5]

UnlikeThe Times Literary Supplement (TLS), the majority of the articles theLRB publishes (usually fifteen per issue) are long essays. Some articles in each issue are not based on books, while several short articles discuss film or exhibitions. Political and social essays are frequent. The magazine is headquartered inBloomsbury, London.[2]

Wilmers took over as editor in 1992 and remained as editor for almost 30 years.[6] She was succeeded by Jean McNicol and Alice Spawls in 2021.[6] Average circulation per issue for January to December 2023 was 74,743.[7]

In January 2010,The Times wrote that theLondon Review was £27M in debt to the Wilmers' family trust, although the trust had "no intention of the lender seeking repayment of the loan in the near future".[8]

The London Review Bookshop opened in Bloomsbury in May 2003, and the Cake Shop next door in November 2007. The bookshop is used as a venue for author presentations and discussions.[3]

In 2011, whenPankaj Mishra criticisedNiall Ferguson's bookCivilisation: The West and the Rest in theLRB, Ferguson threatened to sue for libel.[9][10]

In 2023,Hebrew Writers Association in Israel openly published a protest response to the letter of support for Gaza that was published in the journal, and called writers and artists around the world to support the freeing of the kidnapped.[11]

In January 2024,A Hitch in Time: Reflections Ready for Reconsideration, an anthology ofChristopher Hitchens's writings between 1983 and 2002 forThe London Review of Books, was published.[12]

Contributors

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Contributors have included:

See also

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References

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  1. ^Dugdale, John (20 February 2013)."Hilary Mantel: not the first LRB controversy".The Guardian. Retrieved20 February 2013.
  2. ^abcDay, Elizabeth (9 March 2014)."Is the LRB the best magazine in the world?".The Observer.ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved29 June 2023.
  3. ^ab"About the LRB".
  4. ^Grimes, William (20 June 2011)."A. Whitney Ellsworth, First Publisher of New York Review, Dies at 75".The New York Times. Retrieved20 June 2011.
  5. ^Bennett, Alan, July 1996, in the Foreword to Jane Hindle (editor),London Review of Books: An Anthology, Verso, 1996.ISBN 1-85984-860-5: "The LRB has maintained a consistently radical stance on politics and social affairs."
  6. ^abFlood, Alison (29 January 2021)."London Review of Books editor Mary-Kay Wilmers steps down after 30 years".The Guardian. Retrieved30 January 2021.
  7. ^"London Review of Books - ABC - Delivering a valued stamp of trust - ABC UK".www.abc.org.uk. Retrieved1 October 2024.
  8. ^Brooks, Richard (24 January 2010)."London Review of Books £27m in the red – but it isn't counting".The Times.Archived from the original on 26 February 2020. Retrieved7 May 2021.
  9. ^Harris, Paul (4 May 2013)."Niall Ferguson apologises for anti-gay remarks towards John Maynard Keynes".The Observer. Retrieved4 May 2013.
  10. ^Mishra, Pankaj (3 November 2011)."Watch this man".London Review of Books.33 (21). Retrieved3 November 2011.
  11. ^"Israeli writers condemn London Review of Books for condemning Israel".The Jerusalem Post. 2 November 2023.ISSN 0792-822X. Retrieved28 May 2024.
  12. ^Gardner, Dwight (1 January 2024)."Want to Feel, Intellectually, Like Someone Is Rotating Your Tires? - This bracing anthology of Christopher Hitchens's work for The London Review of Books is just the ticket. (updated 17 January 2024)".The New York Times.Archived from the original on 1 January 2024. Retrieved4 February 2024.

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