Early in the morning of the fourth of August, 1892.
Hot, hot, hot ... very early in the morning, before the factory whistle, but, even at this hour, everything shimmers and quivers under the...
As I write, the temperature in New York City is 86° F. The relative humidity is 56, the winds are south-westerly at seven mph, visibility stands at six miles. What do those numbers really...
David Benedictus is the Editor of Readings for BBC Radio’s Book at Bedtime. His Sunny Intervals and Showers is ill-suited for late-night reading, since it is not good to have the mind...
Not long after the First World War, the movie baron Samuel Goldwyn set up a stable of Eminent Authors in an attempt to give silent screenplays more literary weight. One of the recruits was the...
The last day of June 1858 was a warm day, though not the hottest of that summer. Two weeks earlier the temperature in London had reached 90 degrees, the highest ever recorded. Even so the...
If climate change is not only inevitable but already underway, how are we to live with it?
London Review of Books: An Incomplete History invites readers behind the scenes for the first time, reproducing a fascinating selection of artefacts and ephemera from the paper’s archives, personal...
What happened to Cicero’s head after he was murdered on 7 December 43 BC? Who saw America first on 12 October 1492? Which year was fated to be famous in British history principally for the ‘Great...
Diverted Traffic has made it past 100, and survived the first wave – thanks for sticking with us! In August and beyond, we’ll continue to send our anti-news newsletter, but there will be some...
Pieces about Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, Henry VIII, Bloody Mary, Jane Boleyn, Christopher Marlowe and other royal bodies, by Hilary Mantel.
Writing for the morning(s) after, by Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen, Jenny Diski, Andrew Motion, Nicholas Spice, Peter Hill, Barbara Newman, Alexei Sayle and Mary-Kay Wilmers.
Writing about the House of Windsor by Paul Foot, Glen Newey, Jenny Diski, William Empson, Bee Wilson, Thomas Jones, Caroline Murphy, Rosemary Hill, Ferdinand Mount and Hilary Mantel.
Writing about Christmas by Brigid Brophy, Charles Nicholl, Wendy Doniger, Terry Castle, Frank Kermode, Hilary Mantel, James Wood and Alice Spawls.
Writing about the White House by Christopher Hitchens, Jenny Diski, Stephen Greenblatt, Linda Colley, J. Hoberman, David Runciman, Michael Rogin and Colm Tóibín.
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