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?
Writing about party going by Alan Bennett, Dinah Birch, Anne Carson, Tim Dee, Jenny Diski, Lorna Sage, Emily Witt, Bee Wilson, Steven Shapin, A.J.P. Taylor, Ronan Bennett and Andrew O’Hagan.
Writing about political corruption from the LRB archive by Peter Geoghegan, Paul Foot, Deborah Friedell, Conor Gearty, Eliane Glaser, Perry Anderson, Simon Jenkins, Jenny Diski, Uri Avnery and Sidney Blumenthal.
For the duration of the conference, in place of our Paper Cuts newsletter (though just as timely), we’ll be sharing writing about water, fire, earth and air from the LRB archive. Amartya...
For the duration of the conference, in place of our Paper Cuts newsletter (though just as timely), we’ll be sharing writing about water, air, fire and earth from the LRB archive....
For the duration of the conference, in place of our Paper Cuts newsletter (though just as timely), we’ll be sharing writing about water, earth, air and fire from the LRB archive. Naomi...
For the next fortnight, in place of our Paper Cuts newsletter (though just as timely), we’ll be sharing writing about air, fire, earth and water from the LRB archive. Iain Sinclair’s piece...
When was George Bernard Shaw introduced to sexuality? Did Rome really fall in 410 AD? What caused Andrew O’Hagan to decide to hate football for life? Which day in the life of Samuel Pepys is the...
Writing in the LRB archive by Will Self, Alice Spawls, Jenny Diski, Jamie Fisher, Jeremy Harding, Hilary Mantel, Thomas Jones, Louis Mackay, Daniel Soar, Lauren Oyler, Yasmine Seale and...
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