Links tagged with “lrb”
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LRB · Daniel Soar · Short Cuts
An article from May 2009 about the @ sign, followed by some fascinating letters about what it’s called in other countries.
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LRB · Anne Enright · Diary
I want a current affairs-only newspaper by the LRB full of articles written like this.
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LRB · David Runciman · I Could Fix That
All interesting, but I particularly like the bits where Bill Clinton gets obsessed with details of things like Hubble and Dolly the sheep.
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LRB · Bridget Riley: At the End of My Pencil
Bridget Riley on why she draws and how her paintings developed. Good, although it all sounds more straighforward than I imagine it was.
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LRB · Roy Mayall: Diary
A good day to finally read this report from a pseudonymous postman. “Figures are down” but volumes are up; companies are important, ordinary people aren’t.
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LRB · John Lanchester: It’s Finished
Very long but very worth reading, on the collapse of the banks. One day I hope there’s a book called “John Lanchester Explains Everything”.
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LRB · Mark Greif: You’ll Love the Way It Makes You Feel
Great article on ‘Mad Men’, nailing some (but not all) of the things that annoy me about it. But so many people rave about it, despite all this, that we’re going to try again…
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LRB · letters page from Vol. 30 No. 14
The ‘10’ on 10 Downing Street’s front door is Trajan, with an upper case ‘O’ instead of a zero.
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LRB · Iain Sinclair: The Olympics Scam
Very good long article on the 2012 London Olympics and its effect on East London. I was getting won over by the Olympics until this reminded me how I really feel.
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LRB · Thomas Jones: Short Cuts
“The best of the lot, though, is the diary of Samuel Pepys, which a web designer called Phil Gyford has been posting in daily instalments since 2003…” Hurrah!
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LRB | Rosemary Hill : Keep Calm
An account of the Co-operative Correspondence Club (early 20C women’s letter-writing distribution network). Also rather moving as the century continues and the women age.
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LRB | Andrew O’Hagan : The Things We Throw Away
Wonderful essay about the UK’s rubbish and recycling. Well worth reading. “Throwing things away has been so essential to our sense of how to live that we forget we invented the process just to increase our pleasures.”
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LRB | Barry Schwartz : Stop the treadmill!
Interesting review of what sounds like a fascinating book: ‘The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain since 1950’ by Avner Offer. (Subscribers only unfortunately.)
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LRB | Jonathan Lear : Can the virtuous person exist in the modern world?
More ethics, morality, philosophy stuff for me to delve into one mythical day when I have loads more time to read books. (Subscribers only)
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LRB | David Edgar : Stalking Out
Review of a John Osborne biography with lots of interesting history about 1950s/60s London theatre, especially ‘Look Back in Anger’, Stratford East, and the Royal Court, and whether theatre was shaken up or not.
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LRB | E.S. Turner : Catchers in the Rye
Interesting article about the history of animal and human traps (subscribers only).
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LRB | letters from Vol. 28 No. 15
I have a letter in the current London Review of Books. I fear they’ll rumble that my knowledge is based solely on Google and Wikipedia (I’ve never seen ‘Happy Days’).
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LRB | Tom Shippey : The Most Learned Man in Europe
Interesting summary of the history of libraries in Western Europe. (Subscribers only.)
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LRB | Rose George : Diary
Subscribers-only or pay-for, but an interesting account of going into London’s sewers. She’s working on a book about human waste…
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LRB | Steven Shapin : At the Amsterdam
Review of two books on the history of coffee houses. A fascinating summary of how lively, interesting and important they were. (Subscribers only unfortunately.)
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LRB | Patrick Wright : Cubist Slugs
Particularly for the first two-thirds, outlining the fascinating art-influenced history of early camouflage. Worth a read.