Letter
Destined to Disappear
19 October 2016
Mary-Kay Wilmers writes: As it happens Pankaj Mishra quoted Tom Buchanan quoting the same passage in his review of Niall Ferguson’s Civilisation (LRB, 3 November 2011). Strange.
Mary-Kay Wilmers
Mary-Kay Wilmers helped to found the LRB in 1979 and was its editor for many years. Her pieces have been collected as Human Relations and Other Difficulties. She is now the paper’s consulting editor.
Letter
Tysoniana
25 January 2001
More on Tyson the lapsed psychoanalyst: he used to say he’d have liked to pin a note to the wall of his consulting room, legible from the couch, that read: ‘Least said soonest mended.’
Letter
South African Observations
4 August 1994
Mary-Kay Wilmers writes: Has Terry Kelly got a summer job at Bandung Productions (prop: Tariq Ali)? The provenance of his fax suggests so.
Letter
Plain Speaking
10 November 1988
Mary-Kay Wilmers writes: Christopher Ricks is right to chastise me for not looking up what he said, though I’m sorry he has taken the lapse so darkly to heart. I remembered the remark because I don’t quite see the connection that Professor Ricks seems to see between good looks and good times; I misremembered it because I think of good looks as something that men have required of women but which...
Podcasts & Videos
Podcast
Analogous Patisseries
Mary-Kay Wilmers and Andrew O’Hagan
23 February 2021
Mary-Kay Wilmers, who retired as editor of the LRB last month, talks to Andrew O’Hagan about her career, first at Faber and Faber, then the Listener, then for 42 years at the London Review of Books....
Podcast
Early and Late Kermode
Stefan Collini, Mary-Kay Wilmers, Thomas Jones and Andrew O’Hagan
11 August 2020
Stefan Collini talks to Thomas Jones about the life and work of Frank Kermode, and Mary-Kay Wilmers remembers him as a contributor to the LRB.
Video
The LRB at 40
Mary-Kay Wilmers, Alan Bennett, Andrew O’Hagan, John Lanchester, Yun Sheng and Nicholas Spice
11 October 2019
We look back at 40 years of the LRB in our anniversary event at Conway Hall.
Podcast
Long-Form Essays in the Digital Age
Mary-Kay Wilmers, Andrew O’Hagan, Ben Eastham and Sarah Howe
12 August 2016
Mary-Kay Wilmers, Andrew O’Hagan and Ben Eastham talk to Sarah Howe about ‘Long-Form Essays in the Digital Age’.
Video
Mary-Kay Wilmers and Andrew O’Hagan: The Eitingons
Mary-Kay Wilmers and Andrew O’Hagan
19 September 2017
Mary-Kay Wilmers, editor of the LRB, talks to Andrew O’Hagan about her book The Eitingons, a story of the twentieth century told through the lives of her ancestors: a fur-trader, a psychoanalyst and...
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