John Lanchester

John Lanchester’s book about the financial crisis, Whoops!, is out in paperback.

In the LRB Archive:

• Short Cuts: The Art of Financial Disaster · 15 December 2011

• Short Cuts: #tevezexcuses · 20 October 2011

• The Non-Scenic Route to the Place We’re Going Anyway: The Belgian Solution · 8 September 2011

• Once Greece goes…: Any hope for the euro? · 14 July 2011

• Short Cuts: Unlikeabilityfest · 17 February 2011

• Let Us Pay: Can newspapers survive? · 16 December 2010

• Votes v. Seats · 13 May 2010

• The Author in the Age of the Internet · 24 April 2010

• The Great British Economy Disaster: A Very Good Election to Lose · 11 March 2010

• Short Cuts: Kraft eats Cadbury · 7 January 2010

• Bankocracy: Lehman Brothers · 5 November 2009

  • The Murder of Lehman Brothers: An Insider’s Look at the Global Meltdown by Joseph Tibman
  • A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Incredible Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers by Larry McDonald, in collaboration with Patrick Robinson

• Short Cuts: Caster Semenya · 8 October 2009

• It’s Finished: The Banks · 28 May 2009

• Short Cuts: Google Street View · 9 April 2009

• Short Cuts: the demise of Woolworths · 29 January 2009

• Is it Art?: video games · 1 January 2009

• Cityphobia: The Crash · 23 October 2008

• Short Cuts: Life on Mars? · 11 September 2008

• Not My Fault: New Labour’s Terrible Memoirs · 17 July 2008

  • Speaking for Myself: The Autobiography by Cherie Blair
  • Prezza, My Story: Pulling No Punches by John Prescott, with Hunter Davies
  • A Question of Honour: Inside New Labour and the True Story of the Cash for Peerages Scandal by Michael Levy

• Short Cuts: Who’s Afraid of the Library of America? · 19 June 2008

• Short Cuts: Ken or Boris? · 10 April 2008

• Riots, Terrorism etc: The Great British Press Disaster · 6 March 2008

  • Flat Earth News by Nick Davies

• Cityphilia: the credit crunch · 3 January 2008

• Short Cuts: Decoding Hu Jintao · 15 November 2007

• Good Day, Comrade Shtrum: Vasily Grossman’s Masterpiece · 18 October 2007

  • Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert Chandler

• Shtum: Alastair Campbell’s Diaries · 16 August 2007

  • The Blair Years: Extracts from the Alastair Campbell Diaries edited by Alastair Campbell and Richard Stott

• Short Cuts: Manhunt 2 · 19 July 2007

• Short Cuts: Climate Change · 5 April 2007

• Warmer, Warmer: Global Warming, Global Hot Air · 22 March 2007

  • The Revenge of Gaia by James Lovelock
  • Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis Summary for Policymakers: Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  • Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning by George Monbiot
  • The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies by Richard Heinberg
  • The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review by Nicholas Stern

• Short Cuts: The Rise and Rise of Spam · 25 January 2007

• Other People’s Capital: Conrad and Barbara Black · 14 December 2006

  • Conrad and Lady Black: Dancing on the Edge by Tom Bower

• Diary: Blogswarms · 2 November 2006

• Short Cuts: NASA’s new stick of dynamite · 21 September 2006

• Diary: Among the Balls · 20 July 2006

• The Price of Pickles: Planet Wal-Mart · 22 June 2006

  • The Wal-Mart Effect: How an Out-of-Town Superstore Became a Superpower by Charles Fishman
  • Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price directed by Robert Greenwald

• Short Cuts: cricket’s slanging matches · 8 June 2006

• The Global Id: Is Google a good thing? · 26 January 2006

  • The Google Story by David Vise
  • The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture by John Battelle

• What is Labour for?: Five More Years of This? · 31 March 2005

  • David Blunkett by Stephen Pollard

• Mao meets Oakeshott: Britain’s new class divide · 21 October 2004

  • Mind the Gap: The New Class Divide in Britain by Ferdinand Mount

• Bravo l’artiste: What is Murdoch after? · 5 February 2004

  • The Murdoch Archipelago by Bruce Page
  • Rupert Murdoch: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Media Wizard by Neil Chenoweth
  • Autumn of the Moguls: My Misadventures with the Titans, Poseurs and Money Guys who Mastered and Messed up Big Media by Michael Wolff

• Unbelievable Blair: falling out with New Labour · 10 July 2003

• Short Cuts: Football and Currie · 17 October 2002

• Bond in Torment: James Bond · 5 September 2002

  • From Russia with Love, Dr No and Goldfinger by Ian Fleming

• A Month on the Sofa: My Sporting Life · 11 July 2002

• Online Goodies: Intellectual Property · 25 April 2002

• Lumpy, Semi-Dorky, Slouchy, Smarmy · 23 August 2001

  • Author Unknown: On the Trail of Anonymous by Don Foster

• Be interesting!: Martin Amis · 6 July 2000

  • Experience by Martin Amis

• Rebusworld: The Rise and Rise of Ian Rankin · 27 April 2000

  • Set in Darkness by Ian Rankin

• See you in court, pal: The Microsoft Trial · 30 September 1999

  • The Nudist on the Late Shift by Po Bronson
  • Infinite Loop: How Apple, the World’s Most Insanely Great Computer Company, Went Insane by Michael Malone
  • Burn Rate: How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet by Michael Woolf
  • The Cathedral and the Bazaar: revised edition by Eric S. Raymond

• Slapping the Clammy Flab: Hannibal by Thomas Harris · 29 July 1999

  • Hannibal by Thomas Harris

• D&O · 5 June 1997

  • Journals 1990-92 by Anthony Powell

• Diary · 20 March 1997

• With Luck · 2 January 1997

  • The New Fowler’s Modern English Usage edited by R.W. Burchfield

• Concierge · 16 November 1995

  • Sons of Ezra: British Poets and Ezra Pound edited by Michael Alexander and James McGonigal
  • ‘In Solitude, for Company’: W.H. Auden after 1940 edited by Katherine Bucknell and Nicholas Jenkins
  • Auden by Richard Davenport-Hines
  • Wystan and Chester: A Personal Memoir of W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman by Thekla Clark

• Unspeakability · 6 October 1994

  • The Magician’s Doubts by Michael Wood

• Styling · 21 October 1993

  • United States by Gore Vidal
  • What Henry James Knew, and Other Essays on Writers by Cynthia Ozick
  • Sentimental Journeys by Joan Didion

• Indian Summa · 22 April 1993

  • A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth

• Diary · 3 December 1992

• Catching up with Sammy · 21 November 1991

  • Among the Thugs by Bill Buford
  • A Strange Kind of Glory by Eamon Dunphy

• Oh my oh my oh my · 12 September 1991

  • Mao II by Don DeLillo
  • Introducing Don DeLillo edited by Frank Lentricchia

• Strangers · 11 July 1991

  • Serial Murder: An Elusive Phenomenon edited by Stephen Egger
  • Serial Killers by Joel Norris
  • Life after Life by Tony Parker
  • American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
  • Dirty Weekend by Helen Zahavi
  • Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

• Ng · 9 May 1991

  • The Redundancy of Courage by Timothy Mo

• Born of the age we live in · 6 December 1990

  • Stick it up your punter! The Rise and Fall of the ‘Sun’ by Peter Chippindale and Chris Horrie
  • All played out: The True Story of Italia ’90 by Pete Davies
  • Gazza! A Biography by Robin McGibbon

• How criminals think · 13 September 1990

  • Love and Death on Long Island by Gilbert Adair
  • Going wrong by Ruth Rendell
  • The Burden of Proof by Scott Turow
  • Crucible of Fools by M.S. Power

• Diary · 30 August 1990

• John Lanchester watches the World Cup · 12 July 1990

• Self-Effacers · 24 May 1990

  • Chicago Loop by Paul Theroux
  • Lies of Silence by Brian Moore
  • Amongst Women by John McGahern
  • The Condition of Ice by Christopher Burns

• Cheers · 8 March 1990

  • The Thirsty Muse: Alcohol and the American Writer by Tom Dardis

• Strong Meat · 11 January 1990

  • The Bellarosa Connection by Saul Bellow
  • The War Zone by Alexander Stuart
  • A Touch of Love by Jonathan Coe
  • Do it again by Martyn Harris

• Sour Plums · 26 October 1989

  • The Letters of John Cheever edited by Benjamin Cheever
  • Mary McCarthy by Carol Gelderman
  • The company she keeps by Mary McCarthy

• State of the Art · 1 June 1989

  • Manchester United: The Betrayal of a Legend by Michael Crick and David Smith
  • Football in its Place: An Environmental Psychology of Football Grounds by David Canter, Miriam Comber and David Uzzell

• Foreigners · 5 January 1989

  • Arabesques by Anton Shammas, translated by Vivian Eden
  • Blösch by Beat Sterchi, translated by Michael Hofmann
  • A Casual Brutality by Neil Bissoondath

• A Pom by the name of Bruce · 29 September 1988

  • Utz by Bruce Chatwin

• Be a lamp unto yourself · 5 May 1988

  • S.: A Novel by John Updike

• Catch 28 · 3 March 1988

  • The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst
  • The Beautiful Room is Empty by Edmund White

• Ozick’s No · 4 February 1988

  • The Messiah of Stockholm by Cynthia Ozick
  • The Birds of the Innocent Wood by Deirdre Madden
  • The Coast of Bohemia by Zdena Tomin

• Absent Authors · 15 October 1987

  • Criticism in Society by Imre Salusinszky
  • Mensonge by Malcolm Bradbury

• Dying Falls · 23 July 1987

  • Temporary Shelter by Mary Gordon
  • Bluebeard’s Egg by Margaret Atwood
  • The Native by David Plante
  • The March of the Long Shadows by Norman Lewis

• As a returning lord · 7 May 1987

  • Einstein’s Monsters by Martin Amis

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