The London Review of Books
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London Review of Books (or LRB) is a fortnightly 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.[1] The London Review's first editor was Karl Miller; the current editor is Mary-Kay Wilmers. The average circulation per issue for the period from January 2005 to December 2005 was ... More » (Source: Wikipedia)
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Malcolm Bull reviews ‘A Perfect Moral Storm’ by Stephen Gardiner · LRB 24 May 2012
For the benefit of anyone who has spent the past decade or so on a different planet, the most frequently asked questions about climate change on this one are as follows. Is it ...Posted by Sirajul Islam -
Andrew Haldane: Equity and Banking
How do we make sense of these salary increases? Easily, in fact. During the go-go years, bank profits reached spectacular highs. Bank shareholders remunerated managers for ... -
Letters
It is not my habit to reply to hostile book reviews, but a personal attack that amounts to libel is another matter. Pankaj Mishra purports to discuss my book Civilisation: The ...via Umair Haque -
James Meek: In the Ghost Library
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Pankaj Mishra: Niall Ferguson’s Burden
‘Civilisation’s going to pieces,’ Tom Buchanan, the Yale-educated millionaire, abruptly informs Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby. ‘I’ve gotten to be a terrible ... -
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad: In Somalia
Inside the Ministry of Health, Fatima was building her tent, tying sticks together with strips of fabric, then wrapping larger pieces of cloth around them: a torn sarong, a ... -
Peter Pomerantsev: Putin’s Rasputin
The next act of Russian history is about to begin: Putin and Medvedev will pop off-stage into the Moscow green room, switch costumes, and re-emerge to play each other’s ... -
Jeremy Harding: At the Mexican Border
The battle against illegal migration is a domestic version of America’s interventions overseas, with many of the same trappings: big manpower commitments, militarisation, ... -
Joanna Biggs: Legal Aid
The state spends £2.2 billion a year on lawyers to give advice to and represent people in legal cases: the coalition’s aim is to save £350 million of this, which will ... -
Three Hundred Pounds of Wise-Cracking Woe
Chris Christie is very fat. That wasn’t the problem, as he contemplated running for president on the Republican ticket: 75 per cent of Americans are overweight, if not quite ...via David Wardell (t)



