Issue 48.13 is now online, featuring: Ray Monk on Einstein @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and @lucasamin.bsky.social on Palantir David Runciman on gerontocracy Jonathan Coe on Alfred Hitchcock and @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social on Native American art. Read online at www.lrb.co.uk

John Lanchester reviewed George Cottrell’s book, 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘰 𝘓𝘢𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺: 𝘈 𝘎𝘶𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘓𝘢𝘸 𝘌𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵, 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘺𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘴,in the 𝘓𝘙𝘉 in May. Read here: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Sarah Howe and Sandeep Parmar will be at the @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk on Wednesday with Sophie Robinson and Oluwaseun Olayiwola for a live episode of their new 𝘓𝘙𝘉 podcast, ‘Poetry and the Turning World’. Tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/sex-poetry...

Issue 48.12 is online now, featuring: @will-davies.bsky.social on Andy Burnham Marina Warner on Celia Paul @alicehunt.bsky.social on Catherine of Braganza @muhammadshehada.bsky.social on Palestine’s future Seamus Perry on Michael Longley and Colin Burrow on pedantry. Read online at www.lrb.co.uk

Issue 48.11 is online now, featuring: Simon Skinner on the World Cup @tricialockwood.bsky.social at a tradcath wedding
 Steven Shapin on the physicist Luis Alvarez Mark Ford on John Berryman Adam Thirlwell on Maxim Gorky and Joanna Biggs on Lena Dunham. Read online at www.lrb.co.uk

Issue 48.10 is now online, featuring: Stefan Collini on the crisis in universities Lili Owen Rowlands on Agnès Varda Greg Afinogenov on Russian ideologies Rahmane Idrissa on the Sahara and @jamesmeek.bsky.social on Andy Burnham. Read online at www.lrb.co.uk

Issue 48.09 is now online, featuring: John Lanchester on money laundering @piercepenniless.bsky.social on the local elections Becca Rothfeld on Marlen Haushofer @tomstevenson.bsky.social on the war in Afghanistan and Robert Cioffi on Ptolemaic Egypt. Read online at www.lrb.co.uk

What do you think of Close Readings? Close Readings is the podcast where LRB contributors read and discuss key works of literature, history and culture. Whether you’re a long-term subscriber or you’ve just listened to a few sample episodes, share your thoughts here: www.surveymonkey.com/r/D8NDK5S

Issue 48.08 is now online, featuring: @lalehkhalili.bsky.social on the Arctic T.J. Clark on Willem de Kooning @will-davies.bsky.social on hyperpolitics @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on the Hungarian election and Andrew O’Hagan on a London mystery. Read online at www.lrb.co.uk

Issue 48.07 is out now, featuring: Eyal Weizman on the destruction of Gaza Ian Penman on the Beach Boys James Lasdun on touring US courts Sarah Resnick on Ágota Kristóf and @xlo.bsky.social on Ben Lerner. Available online now at www.lrb.co.uk

‘It is possible to date the Resurrection with some exactness: it occurred “before daybreak on a Sunday, probably on 9 April, AD 30”. But this exactitude is self-defeating.’ Frank Kermode on the first Easter Sunday, in the archive. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...

‘Late on Good Friday I watched a 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘰 or float of the 𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘋𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘢 making its ponderous way towards the cathedral. The life-sized statue was swaying gently from side to side and looked like a beautiful beetle.’ Mary Wellesley in Granada, from 2015. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2015/ap...

Issue 48.06 is now online, featuring: @tricialockwood.bsky.social on Willa Cather @piercepenniless.bsky.social on historical sex between men Tom Crewe on Gustave Caillebotte’s gaze Amjad Iraqi on Israel’s wars and Vadim Nikitin on the Steele dossier. Read online now at www.lrb.co.uk

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Issue 48.05 is now online, featuring: Andrew O’Hagan on Andrew Windsor Susan Pedersen on Epstein Nicholas Spice on Schubert @shreir.bsky.social on Chantal Akerman @tomstevenson.bsky.social on the war on Iran and Joanna Biggs on Solvej Balle. Read online now at www.lrb.co.uk

On the latest episode of the podcast, @erinmaglaque.bsky.social joins Thomas Jones (@moonjets.bsky.social) to discuss the ways that Caravaggio represented his models’ bodies on canvas and what makes his paintings so unnerving. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

On the LRB Podcast: @erinmaglaque.bsky.social joins Thomas Jones to discuss Caravaggio’s bodies. What makes his paintings so unnerving that even the people who commissioned them sometimes got rid of them as soon as they could? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Will democracy survive as a 21st-century form of government, or are we watching it slide towards bankruptcy? On 11 March, David Runciman (@ppfideas.bsky.social), Lyse Doucet, Thant Myint-U and Christopher Clark will discuss the slow death of democracy. Tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/londo...

Issue 48.04 is now online, featuring: Jackson Lears on the political strategist Zbigniew Brzezinski Michael Dobson on Christopher Marlowe Alexander Bevilacqua at Noah’s Ark @erinmaglaque.bsky.social on Caravaggio and @piercepenniless.bsky.social on Peter Mandelson. Read online at www.lrb.co.uk

The Slow Death of Democracy Will democracy survive as a 21st-century form of government, or are we watching it slide towards bankruptcy? An event with David Runciman @ppfideas.bsky.social, Lyse Doucet (BBC), Thant Myint-U and Christopher Clark. 11 March 2026 www.tickettailor.com/events/londo...

The Slow Death of Democracy Will democracy survive as a 21st-century form of government, or are we watching it slide towards bankruptcy? An event with David Runciman @ppfideas.bsky.social, Lyse Doucet (BBC), Thant Myint-U and Christopher Clark. 11 March 2026 www.tickettailor.com/events/londo...

On Wednesday, @jamesmeek.bsky.social will be at the @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk to discuss his latest novel, ‘Your Life Without Me’ with Lara Pawson. Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/james-meek...

The Slow Death of Democracy Will democracy survive as a 21st-century form of government, or are we watching it slide towards bankruptcy? An event with David Runciman @ppfideas.bsky.social, Lyse Doucet (BBC), Thant Myint-U and Christopher Clark. 11 March 2026 www.tickettailor.com/events/londo...

Next Wednesday, journalist, novelist and 𝘓𝘙𝘉 contributing editor @jamesmeek.bsky.social will be at the @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk to discuss his latest novel, 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘔𝘦, with Lara Pawson. Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/james-meek...

Issue 48.03 is now online, featuring: Seamus Perry on pluralism and poetry James Wolcott on John Updike @jamesmeek.bsky.social on the Romanian right Claire Hall on Archimedes John Gallagher on early modern news @lalehkhalili.bsky.social on the US Special Forces Read online at lrb.co.uk

TOMORROW: was Jane Austen gay? The 𝘓𝘙𝘉 and the City of London Sinfonia join forces to pose the question nobody thought to ask during Jane Austen’s 250th anniversary year, Sunday 1 February at the Actors’ Church in Covent Garden. More details and tickets: actorschurch.org/whatson/was-...

‘This is why the women during the 2022 protests burned their veils. It was a way to transform the red lines into a barricade, to say, we don't want to fit our demands of change within the framework of the Islamic Republic.’ @chowmak.bsky.social on the podcast: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Was Jane Austen gay? The 𝘓𝘙𝘉 and the City of London Sinfonia join forces to pose the question nobody thought to ask during Jane Austen’s 250th anniversary year, on Sunday at the Actors’ Church in Covent Garden. More details and tickets: actorschurch.org/whatson/was-...