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Tuesday 27 January: to mark what would have been Edward Said’s 90th birthday, the London Palestine Film Festival and SOAS Centre for Palestine Studies will screen ‘Edward Said: The Last Interview’, Mike Dibb’s extended conversation with Said.

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January 12, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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January 10, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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Didn’t get what you wanted for Christmas? Console yourself with an LRB subscription: just £6 for 6 issues and a free tote bag, in our January flash sale.

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January 9, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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Was Jane Austen gay? The LRB and the City of London Sinfonia join forces to pose the question nobody thought to ask during Jane Austen’s 250th anniversary year, on Sunday 1 February at the Actors’ Church in Covent Garden.

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January 9, 2026 at 9:48 AM
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Tuesday 27 January: to mark what would have been Edward Said’s 90th birthday, the London Palestine Film Festival and SOAS Centre for Palestine Studies will screen ‘Edward Said: The Last Interview’, Mike Dibb’s extended conversation with Said.

Tickets & more info: www.eventbrite.com/e/edward-sai...
January 8, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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‘The shamans of Siberia used the mushroom fly agaric to achieve ecstatic trances, drinking the urine of reindeer that had browsed on it. Our own Father Christmas may be a tortuous folk-memory of this cult.’

Charles Nicholl on St Nick’s trippy past, from the archive.

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December 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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‘Father Christmas marks the difference between little children who can be fooled and adults who cannot. The secret of his non-existence is the secret of the initiation rite.’

Wendy Doniger on an anthropological view of Christmas, in the archive.

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December 25, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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‘I came across an American whom I had seen a few times in the corner shop. He said Merry Christmas to me. It was like meeting a fellow-traveller in a far-off country.’

Iqbal Ahmed on Christmas as a ‘castaway’ in Britain, from the archive.

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December 25, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Letter to the editor, December 2010

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A letter to the London Review of Books magazine, reading: 'I recently told the following joke to a rather unreceptive audience and was advised that it was ‘more of a London Review of Books sort of joke’. So I humbly offer it to you. Q: What do you call Santa’s little helpers? A: Subordinate clauses. Jerry Beere'
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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December 19, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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For a century, Judy Garland’s joyous and vulnerable singing voice has captivated audiences at the theatre, over the airwaves and in the cinema. In the latest episode of the LRB Podcast, Bee Wilson joins Malin Hay to discuss Garland’s life and work.

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December 17, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Issue 47.23/24 is online now, featuring:

Amia Srinivasan’s LRB Winter Lecture on psychoanalysis and politics
John Lanchester on AI
@kitchenbee.bsky.social on Judy Garland
Andrew O’Hagan on Walter Lippmann
Jacqueline Rose on Netanyahu
and T.J. Clark on a kouros at the Met.

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December 17, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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December 9, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Tomorrow Night! Join us at the Garden Cinema for our next LRB Screen film: 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦, set in east and south London, including Brixton and Billingsgate fish market. Co-director Andrea Luka Zimmerman will be in conversation after the film.

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December 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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December 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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December 6, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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In the latest episode of the podcast, Sepideh Farsia talks to @adamshatz.bsky.social about her film, ‘Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk’, about the life of Fatma Hassona, a Palestinian photographer who was killed by an Israeli airstrike in April 2025.

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December 5, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Our next LRB Screen film is the Artangel film 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 with director Andrea Luka Zimmerman, set in east and south London, including Brixton market and Billingsgate fish market.

Mon 8 December, 8 p.m. at the Garden Cinema, Covent Garden

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December 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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In the latest episode of the podcast, Sepideh Farsia talks to @adamshatz.bsky.social about her film, ‘Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk’, about the life of Fatma Hassona, a Palestinian photographer who was killed by an Israeli airstrike in April 2025.

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December 3, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Our next LRB Screen film is the Artangel film 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 with director Andrea Luka Zimmerman, set in east and south London, including Brixton market and Billingsgate fish market.

Mon 8 December, 8 p.m. at the Garden Cinema, Covent Garden

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December 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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December 3, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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December 1, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Our next LRB Screen film is the Artangel film 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 with director Andrea Luka Zimmerman, set in east and south London, including Brixton market and Billingsgate fish market.

Mon 08 December, 8 p.m.
The Garden Cinema, Covent Garden

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November 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM