The London Review of Books (or LRB) is a twice-monthly British literary magazine.

The London Review was founded in 1979 by former editors of the Times Literary Supplement, during the year-long lock-out at The Times. For its first six months, it appeared as an insert in the New York Review of Books. In May 1980, the London Review became an independent publication with a distinctly radical editorial orientation. The Times Literary Supplement (or TLS) is a weekly literary review published in London by News International, a subsidiary of News Corporation. ... The New York Review of Books (or NYRB) is a biweekly magazine on literature, culture, and current affairs published in New York which takes as its point of departure that the discussion of important books is itself an indispensable literary activity. ...

The London Review's first editor was Karl Miller; the current editor is Mary-Kay Wilmers. As of January 2004, its circulation was 42,700. Karl Miller (born 1931) is a British literary editor, critic and writer. ... Mary-Kay Wilmers (born 19 July 1938) is the editor of the London Review of Books. ... 2004 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → January 31, 2004 The United States defence budget is set to exceed US$400 billion next year—an almost 7% increase—according to budget proposals inadvertently posted on the Pentagons website. ...

Contributors

Notable contributors have included:

Tariq Ali Tariq Ali (born 1943) is an author, filmmaker, and historian. ... Photo of Martin Amis by Robert Birnbaum Martin Amis (born August 25, 1949) is a British novelist. ... Benedict Anderson is a professor emeritus of International Studies at Cornell University, who is best known for his work titled Imagined Communities, in which he systematically describes, using an historical materialist or Marxist approach, the major factors contributing to the emergence of nationalism in the world during the past three... John Ashbery (born July 8, 1927) is an American poet. ... Barnes as Francophile and Francophone in Bernard Pivots Double je (France 2, March 2005) Julian Patrick Barnes (born January 19, 1946 in Leicester) is a contemporary British writer whose novels and short stories have been seen as examples of postmodernism in literature. ... Alan Bennett (born May 9, 1934) is an English writer and actor. ... The Right Honourable Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury and Minister for the Civil Service. ... Anita Brookner (born July 16, 1928) is an English novelist and art historian born in London. ... Angela Carter (May 7, 1940-February 16, 1992) was an English novelist and journalist, known for her post-feminist magical realist works. ... Stanley Cavell (born September 1, 1926) of Brookline, Massachusetts is an American philosopher. ... Bruce Charles Chatwin (May 13, 1940 - January 18, 1989) was a British novelist and travel writer. ... Terry Eagleton (born in Salford, England, on February 22, 1943) is a British literary critic and philosopher. ... William Empson Sir William Empson (1906-1984) was an English poet and literary critic, and former head of the English department at the University of Sheffield, sometimes reckoned the greatest English literary critic after Samuel Johnson and William Hazlitt and fitting heir to their mode of witty, fiercely heterodox and... Martha Gellhorn Martha Gellhorn (8 November 1908 - 15 February 1998) was an American novelist and journalist considered one of the greatest war correspondents of the 20th century. ... Stephen Jay Greenblatt (born 1943) is a noted Shakespeare scholar and a literary critic/theorist often seen as the leader of the school known as New Historicism or as Greenblatt likes to put it, cultural poetics. He believes that all works of literature are a products of their times and... Eric Hobsbawm (born June 9, 1917) is a British historian and author, once the leading theoretician of the now defunct Communist Party of Great Britain. ... Christopher Hitchens Christopher Eric Hitchens (born April 13, 1949) is a British journalist, author, and literary critic. ... John Frank Kermode (born 1919) is a British literary critic. ... John Lanchester (1962 - ) is a British writer and novelist. ... Tom Nairn is a Scottish theorist of nationalism. ... Andrew OHagan Andrew OHagan (1968 - ) is a Scottish writer and novelist. ... Tom Paulin (January 25, 1949 - ) was born in Leeds, but grew up in Belfast. ... Adam Phillips is a British child psychotherapist and essayist. ... Edward Said Edward Wadie Said (November 1, 1935 – September 24, 2003; Arabic: ) was a well-known Palestinian-born American literary theorist, critic and outspoken Palestinian activist. ... Elaine Showalter was born on January 21, 1941, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Her father was in the wool business and her mother was a housewife. ... Richard McKay Rorty (born October 4, 1931 in New York City) is an American philosopher. ... Salman Rushdie Salman Rushdie (born Ahmed Salman Rushdie Arabic: أحمد سلمان رشدی on June 19, 1947, in Bombay, India) is an Indian-born British essayist and author of fiction, most of which is set on the Indian subcontinent. ... For the Australian politician, see Ian Sinclair Iain Sinclair is a British writer and film maker. ... Susan Sontag Susan Sontag (January 28, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was a well-known American essayist, novelist, left-leaning intellectual, and activist. ... Marina Warner (born 21st November 1946) is a British writer, known as a novelist and short story writer, and also for many non-fiction books relating in various ways to feminism and myth. ... James Wood was born in Durham, England, in 1965, and educated at Eton College on a choral scholarship and Jesus College, Cambridge, where he read literature. ... Slavoj Žižek. ...

External link

• London Review of Books website