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The London Review of Books online resource offers unique, high quality interdisciplinary content. All articles are closely edited and rigorously fact-checked by a team of professional editors, lead by Mary-Kay Wilmers who has been an editor at the magazine since it was founded in 1979. A distinguished Editorial Board includes Frank Kermode, Rosemary Hill, Linda Colley, Michael Wood and James Wood.
All articles are over 3,000 words long, subjects are explored in depth, whilst leading experts from many academic fields contribute essays.
The content is wide ranging, articles ranges from pre-history to the present day, and is particularly valuable for faculty and students in the following areas:
- Literature, History, Politics and Political Theory, Philosophy
- Classics and Ancient History, Cultural History, History of Ideas, Art History
- Psychology and Psychoanalysis
- History of Science and Medicine
- Law, Economics and Business
- Cultural Studies
The London Review of Books is also a unique resource for study of the history of British culture in the post-war period. Explore our special themed selections of in-depth articles:
- American Politics and Current Affairs
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- Jonathan Raban on Sarah Palin
- Corey Robin on terrorism and the Constitution
- Tony Judt on the false consciousness of American Liberals
- John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt on the influence of the Israel lobby on American politics
- British Politics and Current Affairs
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- Conor Gearty on the death of David Kelly
- John Lanchester on banks and the credit crunch
- James Meek on the Water Utilities
- David Runciman on the British Constitution
- Ross McKibbin on the destruction of the public sphere
- Environmental Economics
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- Donald Mackenzie on the political economy of carbon trading
- Amartya Sen on the economic benefits of conservation
- Law
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- Stephen Sedley on the history of the trial
- Gareth Peirce on Internment without trial
- History
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- Linda Colley on the naval history of Britain
- J.G.A. Pocock on Gibbon
- Eamon Duffy on the Reformation
- Quentin Skinner on the meaning of freedom
- Eric Hobsbawm: 'Memories of Weimar'
- Ferdinand Mount on Balfour
- Eric Foner on Slavery
- Natalie Zemon Davies on identification and deception in Early Modern Europe
- Thomas Laqueur on Eichmann and the Holocaust
- Graham Robb on Napoleon III
- Tim Parks on Garibaldi
- Susan Pedersen on Women's Suffrage
- Blair Worden on the overthrow of Charles I
- Anthony Pagden on Britain and Spain in America
- J. Arch Getty on Stalin
- Cultural History and the History of Ideas
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- Stefan Collini on Raymond Williams
- Marina Warner on women in proverbs
- Tom Nairn on Hardt and Negri
- Maya Jasanoff on Edward Said
- P.N. Furbank on homosexuality in 19th century England
- History of Science and History of Medicine
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- Lorraine Daston on the Victorians and Meteorology
- Stephen Shapin on Craig Venter and the Genome Project
- High Pennington on Clostridium Difficile
- Religion and Anthropology
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- Robert Alter on Mary Douglas
- Mary Douglas on the Making of the Hebrew Bible
- Wendy Doniger on Indo-European poetry and myth
- Adam Kuper on Margaret Mead
- Robert Irwin on the Koran
- Philosophy
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- Thomas Nagel on Bernard Williams
- Bernard Williams on 'Why Philosophy needs History'
- Judith Butler on Hannah Arendt
- Jerry Fodor on Darwin
- Derek Parfit on Multiple Universes
- Sheery Turkle on Multiple Personality
- Ian Hacking on Cognition
- Jonathan Ree on Kierkegaard
- Jonathan Lear on Virtue
- Richard Rorty on philosophical analysis in the 20th Century
- Ancient History and Philosophy
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- Jonathan Barnes on science and medicine in early China and Greece
- M.F. Burnyeat demythologises Pythagoras
- Mary Beard on Tacitus
- Psychology and Psychoanalysis
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- Wynne Godley on Masud Khan
- Adam Phillips on Impotence
- Slavoj Zizek on Freud
- Literary Criticism
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- Roy Foster on James Joyce
- Stephen Greenblatt on 'Wonder and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750'
- Frank Kermode on W.H. Auden
- Colm Toibin on the Letters of Henry James
- Barbara Everett on Shakespeare's Sonnets
- Mark Ford on Elisabeth Bishop
- Elaine Showalter on Margaret Atwood
- Terry Castle on Gertrude Stein
- Michael Neve on Hamlet
- Denis Donoghue on T.S. Eliot
- John Kerrigan on W.B. Yeats
- James Wood on Thomas Hardy
- Germaine Greer on the Earl of Rochester
- David Bromwich on James Agee
- Ruth Bernard Yeazell on Edith Wharton
- Hermione Lee on Friendship, Desire and Marriage in Victorian England
- Rosemary Hill on the Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald
- Benjamin Markovits on Byron
- Michael Hofmann on Robert Lowell
- Tom Paulin on Ted Hughes
- Comparative Literature
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- Michael Wood on War and Peace
- Sheila Fitzpatrick on Solzhenitsyn
- Helen Vendler on Dante
- Edmund White on Andre Gide
- Christopher Prendegast on Flaubert
- Michael Hofmann on Robert Walser
- Jacqueline Rose on Bernhard Schlink
- Jonathan Spence on Zhu Wen
- Olivier Todd on Marguerite Duras
- Adewale Maja-Pearce on Wole Soyinka
- Literary Theory
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- Terry Eagleton on Theodor Adorno
- Fredric Jameson on Slavoj Zizek
- A.D. Nuttall on Stanley Fish
- Novelists on Novelists and Other Things
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- John Banville on Philip Roth
- James Meek on James Kelman
- Jonathan Raban on James Meek
- Colm Toibin on Ian McEwan
- Alan Hollinghurst on Howard Sturgis
- Anne Enright on 'Disliking the McCanns'
- Penelope Pitzgerald on Anne Enright
- Julian Barnes on Felix Feneon
- Jonathan Coe on Jacques Tati
- Jenny Diski on Susan Sontag
- Tessa Hadley on Alice Munro
- Joyce Carol Oates on Carson McCullers
- Hilary Mantel on AIDS
- Andrew O'Hagan on Norman Lewis
- Iain Sinclair on the Olympics
- Memoir and Travel
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- Alan Bennett's Diaries
- Richard Wollheim remembers his time in the War
- John Berger on Ramallah
- Mike Davis on Californian Forest Fires
- Andrew O'Hagan in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
- Art and Architecture
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- Julian Barnes on Georges Braque
- Julian Bell on Picasso
- Nicholas Penny on Piero della Francesca
- Linda Nochlin on Louise Bourgeois
- David Sylvester on the Tate Britain
- Richard Wollheim on Nicolas de Stael
- Hal Foster on Renzo Piano
- Rosemary Hill on the English House
- Graham Robb on the 'Raft of the Medusa'
- T.J. Clark on Courbet and Poussin
- Music
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- Alex Ross on Mahler
- David Cannadine on the history of the Proms
- Paul Driver on Robert Schumann
- Robin Holloway on Donald Francis Tovey
- David Matthews on Fugue
- Stephen Walsh on Shostakovich
