The London Review of Books (or LRB) is a fortnightly The fortnight is a unit of time equal to fourteen days. The word derives from the Old English feorwertyne niht, meaning "fourteen nights" British The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland[note 7] is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of the island of Ireland, and many small islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK with a land literary and political magazine.
The LRB was founded in 1979 during the year-long lock-out at The Times The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of News International. News International is entirely owned by the News Corporation group, headed by Rupert Murdoch. Though traditionally a moderately centre-right newspaper and a supporter of the Conservatives, it supported the Labour Party in. Its founding editors were Karl Miller, then professor of English at University College London University College London is a constituent college of the University of London, based primarily in Bloomsbury in the London Borough of Camden, Mary-Kay Wilmers, formerly an editor at The Times Literary Supplement The Times Literary Supplement is a weekly literary review published in London by News International, a subsidiary of News Corporation, and Susannah Clapp, a former editor at Jonathan Cape Jonathan Cape was a British publisher founded in 1919 as Jonathan Page and Company; the name was changed in 1921, and it took over the back list of A. C. Fifield. From that point on it was a major force in British publishing, notably of books by T. E. Lawrence, Arthur Ransome, the latter Roald Dahl books, Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano, Fitzroy. For its first six months it appeared as an insert in the New York Review of Books The New York Review of Books is a fortnightly magazine with articles on literature, culture and current affairs published in New York City. It takes as its point of departure that the discussion of important books is itself an indispensable literary activity. Esquire has called it "the premier literary-intellectual magazine in the English. In May 1980, the London Review became an independent publication with a self described 'consistently radical' editorial orientation.[1] Unlike the TLS, the majority of the articles the LRB publishes (usually fifteen per issue) are long essays; some in each issue are not based around books, and several short articles discuss film or exhibitions.
Mary-Kay Wilmers, the current editor, took over from Miller in 1992. Average circulation per issue from 1 January 2006 to 31 December 2006 was 44,754.[2]
Contributors
Notable contributors have included:
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- Tariq Ali Tariq Ali , born 21 October 1943, is a British Pakistani historian, novelist, filmmaker, political campaigner, and commentator. He is a member of the editorial committee of the New Left Review and Sin Permiso, and regularly contributes to The Guardian, CounterPunch, and the London Review of Books
- Martin Amis Martin Louis Amis is a British novelist, the author of some of Britain's best-known modern literature, including Money (1984) and London Fields (1989). He is currently Professor of Creative Writing at the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester. The Times named him in 2008 as one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945
- Benedict Anderson Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson is Aaron L. Binenkorb Professor Emeritus of International Studies, Government & Asian Studies at Cornell University, and is best known for his celebrated book Imagined Communities, first published in 1983. Anderson was born in Kunming, China to James O'Gorman and Veronica Beatrice Mary Anderson, and in 1941
- Perry Anderson Perry Anderson is a historian and noted writer. He is Professor of History and Sociology at UCLA and an editor of the New Left Review. He is the brother of historian Benedict Anderson
- Neal Ascherson He was born in Edinburgh and educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, where he read history. He was described by the historian, Eric Hobsbawm, as "perhaps the most brilliant student I ever had. I didn't really teach him much, I just let him get on with it."
- John Ashbery John Ashbery is an American poet. He has won nearly every major American award for poetry and is recognized as one of America's most important, though still controversial, poets. In an article on Elizabeth Bishop in his Selected Prose, he characterizes himself as having been described as "a harebrained, homegrown surrealist whose poetry
- Andrew Bacevich
- Julian Barnes Julian Patrick Barnes is a contemporary English writer. He has been shortlisted three times for the Man Booker Prize (Flaubert's Parrot (1984), England, England (1998), and Arthur & George (2005)). He has written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh
- Alan Bennett Bennett was born in Armley in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire. The son of a co-op butcher, Bennett attended Leeds Modern School , learned Russian at the Joint Services School for Linguists during his National Service, and gained a place at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. However, having spent time in Cambridge during national service, and partly
- Tony Blair Anthony Charles Lynton "Tony" Blair is a British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007; he resigned from all these positions in June 2007
- Anita Brookner
- Angela Carter Angela Carter was an English novelist and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, picaresque and science fiction works. In 2008, The Times ranked Carter tenth, in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945"
- Stanley Cavell Stanley Louis Cavell is an American philosopher. He is the Walter M. Cabot Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University
- Bruce Chatwin
- Patrick Cockburn
- Terry Eagleton Terence Francis Eagleton is a British literary theorist widely regarded as Britain's most influential living literary critic. Eagleton currently serves as Distinguished Professor of English Literature at the University of Lancaster, and as a Visiting Professor at the National University of Ireland, Galway
- William Empson
- Paul Farmer
- Jerry Fodor Jerry Alan Fodor is an American philosopher and cognitive scientist. He holds the position of State of New Jersey Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University and is the author of many works in the fields of philosophy of mind and cognitive science, in which he has laid the groundwork for the modularity of mind and the language of thought
- Paul Foot Paul Mackintosh Foot was a British investigative journalist, political campaigner, author, and long-time member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). He was the grandson of Isaac Foot, who had been a Liberal MP, and the son of Hugh Foot (who was the last Governor of Cyprus and, as Lord Caradon, the British Ambassador to the United Nations from 1964
- Martha Gellhorn Martha Gellhorn was an American novelist, travel writer and journalist, considered to be one of the greatest war correspondents of the 20th century.[who?] She reported on virtually every major world conflict that took place during her 60-year career. Gellhorn was also the third wife of American novelist Ernest Hemingway, from 1940 to 1945. At the
- Stephen Greenblatt Greenblatt is regarded by many as one of the founders of New Historicism, a set of critical practices that he often refers to as "cultural poetics"; his works have been influential since the early 1980s when he introduced the term. Greenblatt has written and edited numerous books and articles relevant to new historicism, the study of
- Mark Greif
- Nigel Hamilton
- Christopher Hitchens Christopher Eric Hitchens is an English-American author and journalist. His books, and a prolific journalistic career that has spanned more than four decades, have made him a prominent public intellectual, and a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits. He has been a columnist and literary critic at The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Slate, World Affairs,
- Eric Hobsbawm Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm , CH, FBA, (born 9 June 1917) is a British Marxist historian and author. He had a profound influence on the understanding of European and particularly British history through his books and other writings
- Frank Kermode
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- Colin Kidd
- India Knight
- John Lanchester
- Donald MacKenzie
- Hilary Mantel
- Wyatt Mason
- Hugh Miles
- Tom Nairn
- Martha Nussbaum Martha Nussbaum is an American philosopher with a particular interest in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, political philosophy and ethics
- Andrew O'Hagan Andrew O'Hagan is a Scottish writer and novelist. He was selected by the literary magazine Granta for inclusion in their 2003 list of the top 20 young British novelists
- Tom Paulin
- Nicholas Penny
- Adam Phillips
- Lorna Sage
- Edward Said Edward Wadie Saïd was a Palestinian-American literary theorist and advocate for Palestinian rights. He was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and a founding figure in postcolonialism. Robert Fisk described him as the Palestinians' "most powerful political voice."
- Elaine Showalter
- Richard Rorty Richard McKay Rorty was an American philosopher. He had a long and diverse academic career, including positions as Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton, Kenan Professor of Humanities at the University of Virginia, and Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University. His complex intellectual background gave him a comprehensive and
- Jacqueline Rose
- David Runciman
- Salman Rushdie Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is a British-Indian novelist and essayist. He achieved notability with his second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), which won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. His style is often classified as magical realism mixed with historical fiction, and a dominant theme of his work is
- Iain Sinclair Iain Sinclair is a British writer and film maker. Much of his work is rooted in London, most recently within the influences of psychogeography
- Susan Sontag Susan Sontag was an American author, literary theorist, and political activist
- Ernest Sackville Turner
- Marina Warner Marina Sarah Warner, CBE, FBA is a British novelist, short story writer, historian and mythographer. She is known for her many non-fiction books relating to feminism and myth
- James Wood
- Slavoj Žižek Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian continental philosopher and critical theorist working in the traditions of Hegelianism, Marxism and Lacanian psychoanalysis. He has made contributions to political theory, film theory, and theoretical psychoanalysis
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Notes
- ^ "The LRB has maintained a consistently radical stance on politics and social affairs", Alan Bennett, July 1996, in the Foreword to Jane Hindle (editor) London Review of Books: An Anthology, Verso, 1996. ISBN 1-85984-860-5
- ^ Media info on LRB website [1]
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