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Deborah Friedell @deborahfriedell.bsky.social · 12h

I love the @lrb.co.uk “Close Readings” podcast, so it was a total treat to do this episode with @moonjets.bsky.social & Colm Tóibín on Henry James -- even if Colm remains inexplicably blind to the charms of Lord Warburton & his moat. www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...

Podcast: Colm Tóibín, Deborah Friedell and Thomas Jones · Novel Approaches: ‘The Portrait of a Lady’ by Henry James

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James Meek @jamesmeek.bsky.social · 7d

I wrote about Artificial Desire

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James Meek · Computers that want things

For all the fluency and synthetic friendliness of public-facing AI chatbots like ChatGPT, it seems important to remember...

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Deborah Friedell @deborahfriedell.bsky.social · 7d

Based on the novel "Box Hill" by none other than Adam Mars-Jones! @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social

Film Updates @thefilmupdates.bsky.social · 7d

The trailer for Harry Lighton’s ‘PILLION’ starring Harry Melling & Alexander Skarsgård.

In theaters February 2026.

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Deborah Friedell @deborahfriedell.bsky.social · 7d

The case is being brought by a public interest law firm, which represents clients free of charge (but which would very much appreciate donations). More information here: ij.org/press-releas...

U.S. Citizen’s Lawsuit Demands an End to Unconstitutional Raids and Detentions at Alabama Construction Sites - Institute for Justice

MOBILE, Ala.—Leo Garcia Venegas is an American citizen and construction worker in south Alabama. Even though he has done nothing suspicious and is working on […]

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Deborah Friedell @deborahfriedell.bsky.social · 11d

(Sorry -- reposted with proper link!)

Tony Harrison's V.: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v0...

Tony Harrison · Poem: ‘V.’

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Deborah Friedell @deborahfriedell.bsky.social · 11d

‪Tony Harrison's 'V.' was first published in the London Review of Books in 1985. The front page of the Daily Mail reported on the 'FOUR LETTER TV POEM FURY.'

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Tony Harrison · Poem: ‘V.’

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Paul Laity @paullaity.bsky.social · 21d

'Welcome to my last four years.' A search for accountability and a full, detailed explanation for Martha's death . . . www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Paul Laity · After Martha

For the hospital, and for the NHS, it was a closed case, another preventable death: medicine is imperfect, such things...

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Deborah Friedell @deborahfriedell.bsky.social · Aug 24

Just saw this!!!!!

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Jul 25

‘Israel’s allies are still buying time for Israel to change course or come to a deal with Hamas over how many trucks to allow in, as though food were a legitimate bargaining chip. Gazans cannot afford to wait for either.’

New on the blog: Amjad Iraqi on Gaza.

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Amjad Iraqi | Walking Corpses

Israel’s allies are still buying time for Israel to change course or come to a deal with Hamas over how many trucks to...

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Thomas Jones @moonjets.bsky.social · Jul 12

On the Bayeux Tapestry, Anglo-French relations, Macron, European borders, small boats and British warships, from seven years ago www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Thomas Jones · In Bayeux

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Deborah Friedell @deborahfriedell.bsky.social · Jul 12

The cartoonist Jules Feiffer once wrote that Superman’s real home wasn’t Krypton but “the planet Poland, from Lodz maybe, possibly Crakow, maybe Vilna.”

Of course Superman is an immigrant. I wrote about him for the @newyorker.com in 2013: www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

Kryptonomics

Why Superman’s creators got a raw deal.

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Deborah Friedell @deborahfriedell.bsky.social · Jul 6

Likewise!!

Deborah Friedell @deborahfriedell.bsky.social · Jul 4

Zohran's father, Mahmood Mamdani, wrote for @lrb.co.uk about his family's expulsion from Uganda www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Mahmood Mamdani · The Asian Question: On Leaving Uganda

President Yoweri Museveni was careful not to refer to Asians as citizens; he explained that they were ‘investors’,...

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Lauren Elkin @laurenelkin.bsky.social · Jul 3

Doing a lil’ local talk tomorrow night, come on out southeast London!

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Deborah Friedell @deborahfriedell.bsky.social · Jun 4

"When I wrote that I’d had sex over the years with 3,000 men, one of my contemporaries asked pityingly: ‘Why so few?’”

Edmund White's essays in the @lrb.co.uk archive: www.lrb.co.uk/contributors...

& Adam Phillips on White's autobiography www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v2...

Edmund White

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Paul Laity @paullaity.bsky.social · May 30

Deadline a week today.
The Martha Mills Young Writers’ Prize 2025 www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

The Martha Mills Young Writers’ Prize 2025 | London Review Bookshop

The London Review Bookshop is proud to announce the third year of the Martha Mills Young Writers’ Prize. Inspired by the curiosity and imagination of Martha Mills, the…

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James Meek @jamesmeek.bsky.social · May 27

Very late indeed to this remarkable Helen Sullivan piece, the opening of a crack into another (to me) world www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Helen Sullivan · Diary: Trapped in the Mine

Gcina Lepheana had been working deep in the illegal mine for five months when, in October last year, deliveries stopped...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · May 16

The LRB has a vacancy for an intern, starting in late summer. Duties are multifarious and not glamorous; they include opening the post, keeping on top of editorial email and fact-checking. Fact-checking is particularly important. The job is paid (above the London Living Wage) and lasts for a year. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds. CVs and covering letters should be sent to edit@lrb.co.uk by 16 June.

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Deborah Friedell @deborahfriedell.bsky.social · Apr 10

F. Scott Fitzgerald said that he would attempt a serious novel one more time. If it failed, he would ‘come home, go to Hollywood and learn the movie business’. That is what he did. Then he died.

Thomas Powers on 'The Great Gatsby' in the @lrb.co.uk:
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Thomas Powers · The Road to West Egg

In October 1922, Fitzgerald moved his family to Great Neck, Long Island and over the next 18 months the novel acquired a...

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Deborah Friedell @deborahfriedell.bsky.social · Apr 7

Londres! Laurent Binet will be speaking with Thomas Jones on Tuesday at the French Institute in South Ken: www.institut-francais.org.uk/events-agend...

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In Conversation with Laurent Binet - Institut Français · Royaume-Uni

Join multi-award-winning French writer Laurent Binet in conversation with Thomas Jones, editor at the London Review of Books, on the occasion of the UK publication of his latest novel, Perspectives, t...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Mar 26

‘Musk offered to do to America just what he’d done for Twitter.’

Deborah Friedell on Elon Musk:
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Deborah Friedell · Delete the workforce: Musk’s Twitter Takeover

Trump praised Musk for being so good at firing people: ‘You’re the greatest cutter. I mean, I look at what you do....

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Deborah Friedell @deborahfriedell.bsky.social · Mar 22

"But the logic of Christ, as the inquisitor presents it, is essentially no different from the logic of capitalism. It’s your responsibility to save yourself: no one is going to do it for you."

from @danielsoar.bsky.social's astonishing essay on the Brothers K: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Daniel Soar · Will I, Won’t I? Dostoevsky’s Kiss

It’s a big book, some say the best. Freud: ‘The Brothers Karamazov is the most magnificent novel ever written...

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