London Review of Books
The London Review of Books ( LRB or ) is a fortnightly British literary magazine.
The London Review was founded in 1979 by the former editors of the Times Literary Supplement, as the appearance of The Times was suspended for one year. During the first six months, she appeared as a supplement to the New York Review of Books. In May 1980, from the London Review an independent publication with a more left-wing political orientation.
The first editor of the London Review was Charles Miller; the current editor is Mary- Kay Wilmers. In January 2004, the circulation was 42,700 copies.
Authors
Well-known authors include:
- Tariq Ali
- Martin Amis
- Benedict Anderson
- John Ashbery
- Julian Barnes
- Mary Beard
- Alan Bennett
- Tony Blair
- Anita Brookner
- Angela Carter
- Stanley Cavell
- Bruce Chatwin
- Terry Eagleton
- William Empson
- Anne Enright
- Martha Gellhorn
- Stephen Greenblatt
- Marc Griffin
- Eric Hobsbawm
- Christopher Hitchens
- Frank Kermode
- John Lanchester
- Pankaj Mishra
- Richard Lloyd Parry
- Hilary Mantel
- Tom Nairn
- Andrew O'Hagan
- Tom Paulin
- Adam Phillips
- Alex Ross ( music critic )
- Edward Said
- Elaine Showalter
- Jacqueline Rose
- Richard Rorty
- Salman Rushdie
- Iain Sinclair
- Susan Sontag
- Marina Warner
- James Wood
- Slavoj Žižek