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John Lanchester

John Lanchester is a contributing editor at the LRB. His latest book is Family Romance, a memoir.

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In the LRB archive

Short Cuts: Ken or Boris? · 10 April 2008

Riots, Terrorism etc · 6 March 2008

Cityphilia · 3 January 2008

Short Cuts: Decoding Hu Jintao · 15 November 2007

Good Day, Comrade Shtrum · 18 October 2007

  • Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert Chandler  Buy this book

Shtum · 16 August 2007

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

Short Cuts: Manhunt 2 · 19 July 2007

Short Cuts: Climate Change · 5 April 2007

Warmer, Warmer · 22 March 2007

  • The Revenge of Gaia by James Lovelock  Buy this book
  • 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  Buy this book
  • The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review by Nicholas Stern  Buy this book

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

Other People’s Capital · 14 December 2006

Diary: Blogswarms · 2 November 2006

Short Cuts: John Lanchester on NASA’s new stick of dynamite · 21 September 2006

subscriber-only content Diary: Among the Balls · 20 July 2006

The Price of Pickles · 22 June 2006

Short Cuts: John Lanchester on cricket’s slanging matches · 8 June 2006

The Global Id · 26 January 2006

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

What is Labour for? · 31 March 2005

Mao meets Oakeshott · 21 October 2004

Bravo l’artiste · 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 · 10 July 2003

Short Cuts: Football and Currie · 17 October 2002

Bond in Torment · 5 September 2002

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

A Month on the Sofa · 11 July 2002

Online Goodies · 25 April 2002

subscriber-only content Lumpy, Semi-Dorky, Slouchy, Smarmy · 23 August 2001

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

See you in court, pal · 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  Buy this book

Slapping the Clammy Flab · 29 July 1999

  • Hannibal by Thomas Harris

Not currently in the LRB archive

 not available in archive Be interesting! · 6 July 2000

  • Experience by Martin Amis

 not available in archive Rebusworld · 27 April 2000

  • Set in Darkness by Ian Rankin

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