Deborah Friedell

The Life and Death of a Photographer in Gaza Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 12/03/2025 · 54m

In this week’s episode of the LRB podcast I speak with the filmmaker Sepideh Farsi about her new documentary, ‘Put Your Soul in Your Hand and Walk,’ a portrait of Fatma Hassona, a photographer in Gaza who was killed in an Israeli air strike on April 15. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award - NYU Journalism Matthew Power was an award-winning journalist who reported empathetically on the human […]

Writers! Applications for the Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award are open. This year, we've increased the prize to $15,000 to account for the higher cost of pasta. Apply now: journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/awa...

Christmas at the Bookshop Join us this Christmas for late shopping evenings throughout the festive period.

Join us at our Christmas Late Shopping Evenings on 3, 10, and 18 December and get 10% off all books bought on the night. Our neighbours at St. JOHN will also be open late for festive food and drink purchases.

Attendance is free! Tickets here:

NYC Lecture: Adam Tooze on Electrostates, Petrostates & the New Cold War The 2025 LRB Autumn Lecture: a new annual lecture in New York

On 27 October @adamtooze.bsky.social will give the inaugural 𝘓𝘙𝘉 Autumn Lecture in New York on the subject of Electrostates, Petrostates & the New Cold War.

Book now:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nyc-lectur...

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

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...

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...

I wrote about Artificial Desire

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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

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 […]

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...

Tony Harrison · Poem: ‘V.’

(Sorry -- reposted with proper link!)

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

Tony Harrison · Poem: ‘V.’

‪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.'

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v0...

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

'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...

Just saw this!!!!!

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...

‘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.

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

Thomas Jones · In Bayeux

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...

Kryptonomics Why Superman’s creators got a raw deal.

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...

Likewise!!

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’,...

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

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

Edmund White

"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...

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…

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

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...

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...

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.

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...

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:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...

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...

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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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....

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

Deborah Friedell on Elon Musk:
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...

"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...