Labour’s defeat: Letter in reply to Philip Hensher by Dorling, D

“…London Review of Books, Letters, Vol. 42 No. 5 · 5 March 2020…”

Anti-Masochism by Dorling, D

How many more will be dead by Christmas? by Dorling, D

El poder de la anomalía by Perry Anderson

“… Versión especialmente preparada para Prismas del trabajo que Anderson había publicado en London Review of Books (vol. 34, nº 8, 26 de abril de 2012) como reseña a la traducción inglesa de El hilo y las huellas, de Carlo Ginzburg. …”
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Book Review by Mohit Ul Alam Mohit Ul Alam

“… Keeping in view the motto of Crossings being dedicated to generate discussions on cultural interfacing, I’ve included in this Book Review section my commentary on a review, published in the London Review of Books, of a book by Naipaul, and two reviews by myself, one on Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake, and another on Shirshendu’s travelogue on his tour of America …”
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Created Lives: The Evolution of Literary Biography by Andrew Otty

“…However, anyone who takes the Times Literary Supplement or London Review of Books, or who has browsed the shelves of Waterstones—the UK's leading bookseller—recently, will be aware that documentary biography, in a form that has not changed significantly since Boswell's Life of Johnson, remains dominant. …”
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Created Lives: The Evolution of Literary Biography by Andrew Otty

“…However, anyone who takes the Times Literary Supplement or London Review of Books, or who has browsed the shelves of Waterstones—the UK's leading bookseller—recently, will be aware that documentary biography, in a form that has not changed significantly since Boswell's Life of Johnson, remains dominant. …”
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Circumstances of the rise of the so-called Islamic State according to Patrick Cockburn’s perspective by Slawomir Czapnik

“…The aim of this article is to analyze the rise of the so-called Islamic State in the perspective of a Middle Eastern and commentator for “The Independent”, Patrick Cockburn, who also publishes in the “London Review of Books. The text begins with a sketch of the geopolitical determinants for the spread of the Islamic holy war, i.e. jihad. …”
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The Alien in Greenwich - Iain Sinclair & the Millennium Dome by Nicoletta Vallorani

“…The book collects two ";;Expeditions to the building site on Bugsby's Marshes";;, made in 1997   and 1999 and commissioned by the London Review of Books. The two resulting essays were published first separately, on the review, and  then in a volume by Profile Books. …”
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Reviewing the Reviewers: (Re)Translations and the Literary Press by Mary Wardle

“…Within the wider context of (re)translation and reception, this paper outlines a model for assessing how literary review publications address (re)translated works and whether there has been any discernable evolution in their approach over the period during which Translation Studies has emerged and consolidated itself as an academic discipline: the corpus comprises all issues over three separate years (1980, 2000 and 2018) of two international, English-language literary reviews (The New York Review of Books and London Review of Books). The analysis covers all reviews of works of literature translated from any language into English, both for the first time and retranslations, assessing whether there is any observable diachronic change over the time period in question. …”
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Mary-Kay Wilmers. Achieving the Desired

“…Since 1992, she has been the editor of the London Review of Books. Her book The Eitingons: A Twentieth-Century Story (2009) came out in London and New York, in Moscow, in Paris. …”
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Comparative Literature in Ireland and Worldwide – An Interview with Professor Declan Kiberd by Yulia Pushkarevskaya Naughton

“…He has also been Director of the Yeats International Summer School (1985-7), Patron of the Dublin Shaw Society (1995-2000), a columnist with The Irish Times (1985-7) and The Irish Press (1987-93), the presenter of the RTÉ Arts programme, Exhibit A(1984-6), and a regular essayist and reviewer in The Irish Times, TLS,London Review of Books and The New York Times. Professor Kiberd is the author of many books including his seminal Inventing Ireland: The Literature of the Modern Nation (1995), Irish Classics (2000), and The Irish Writer and the World (2005), as well as Ulysses and Us, published just this year, and he was also the editor of the Penguin edition of theAnnotated Students’ Ulysses (1992). …”
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Actually Helping Some Poor People by Jennifer Wineke

“…Rev. of Doing Good Better: Effective Altruism and a Radical New Way to Make a Difference, by William MacAskill. London Review of Books 37.18 (2015): 3-6. 13 Dec. 2018. https://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n18/amia-srinivasan/stop-the-robot-apocalypse/. …”
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Should we live for 200 or more years by Sylvia English

“… • Bull, Malcom, "What is the Rational Response?" London Review of Books 24 (May 2012): 3-6. • Loike, John, and Tendler, Moshe, "Revisting the Definition of Homosapiens," Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 12, no.4 (2002): 343-350…”
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