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On Vladimir Nabokov.
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On Vladimir Nabokov.
Patricia Lockwood London Review of Books Nov 2020 20min Permalink
On Glenn Gould.
A work trip to Turkmenistan.
James Lomax London Review of Books Jul 2020 15min Permalink
‘Florida and Ohio, man,’ the barista at the local café said to my husband, when he asked about the tourist trade. ‘People here at least acknowledge that it’s real. But people from Florida and Ohio don’t even seem to think it’s happening.’ Having lived in both places, I believe him: I have long had a theory that the surrealism that has overtaken the political landscape in America can be traced back to the poisoned ground of Ohio Facebook.
Patricia Lockwood London Review of Books Jul 2020 15min Permalink
On water scarcity in Mexico City.
Rosa Lyster London Review of Books Mar 2020 15min Permalink
The polar icecaps are melting. Is it OK to have a child? Australia is on fire. Is it OK to have a child? My house is flooded, my crops have failed, my community is fleeing. Is it OK to have a child? It is, in a sense, an impossible question.
Meehan Crist London Review of Books Mar 2020 35min Permalink
No one can seem to agree on his surviving merits. He wrote like an angel, the consensus goes, except when he was writing like a malfunctioning sex robot attempting to administer cunnilingus to his typewriter.
Patricia Lockwood London Review of Books Oct 2019 30min Permalink
On living with the internet.
Patricia Lockwood London Review of Books Feb 2019 30min Permalink
Boomtown San Francisco, as seen from the Google Bus.
Rebecca Solnit London Review of Books Feb 2013 15min Permalink
The AIDS crisis as it unfolded in America is an object lesson in the danger, the potential violence, inherent in organized prejudice.
Tom Crewe London Review of Books Sep 2018 55min Permalink
“Electorates turned with special venom against parties offering what was in effect a milder version of the economic consensus: free-market capitalism with a softer edge. It’s as if the voters are saying to those parties: what actually are you for?”
John Lanchester London Review of Books Jun 2018 20min Permalink
A 60,000-word investigation into the Grenfell Tower fire.
Andrew O’Hagan London Review of Books Jun 2018 4h Permalink
On the work of Rachel Cusk.
Patricia Lockwood London Review of Books May 2018 15min Permalink
“This isn’t an essay about clothes, exactly, nor is it about fashion, quite. It is about women and clothes and something that happens between them that we could think of as a kind of third rail of female experience.”
Rosemary Hill London Review of Books Apr 2018 25min Permalink
On Joan Didion.
Patricia Lockwood London Review of Books Dec 2017 10min Permalink
Best Article Arts Business Media
A review of several books on Rupert Murdoch first criticizes the authors for not grasping the many sides of their subject, then offers a thesis of its own. He’s “not so much a man, or a cultural force, as a portrait of the modern world.”
John Lanchester London Review of Books Feb 2004 25min Permalink
A critique of Facebook.
John Lanchester London Review of Books Aug 2017 35min Permalink
Satoshi Nakamoto was the mysterious creator of Bitcoin. Facing bankruptcy and jail, Craig Wright fled Australia knowing that he would soon be outed as Satoshi by multiple publications. Backed by a business group that hoped to sell his patents, Wright was due to show the proof that he possessed the original keys for Bitcoin, but did he?
Andrew O'Hagan London Review of Books Jun 2016 2h20min Permalink
Following a Cadbury factory to Poland.
James Meek London Review of Books Apr 2017 55min Permalink
The relationship between creative writing programs and modern fiction.
Elif Batuman London Review of Books Sep 2010 35min Permalink
From Medusa to Merkel.
Mary Beard London Review of Books Mar 2017 20min Permalink
All of the books about all of the David Bowies:
There are more and more books like this these days: rock histories and encyclopedias, stuffed with information, compendiums of every last detail from this or that year, era, genre, artist – time pinned down, with absolutely no anxiety of influence. And while it would be churlish to deny there is often a huge amount of valuable stuff in them, I do think we need to question how seriously we want to take certain lives and kinds of art – and how we take them seriously without self-referencing the life out of them, without deadening the very things that constitute their once bright, now frazzled eros and ethos.
Ian Penman London Review of Books Dec 2016 35min Permalink
The psychology of trolling.
Richard Seymour London Review of Books Dec 2016 15min Permalink
“If I had to pick one sentence I’ve heard more than any other in the last six years of conversation about economics, it would be ‘Why aren’t people more angry?’ The Brexit vote showed that plenty of them are. But perhaps it expressed that other feeling, the one of bewilderment, just as much. ‘Take back control’ is a cynical but extremely astute pitch to an electorate in that state of mind.”
John Lanchester London Review of Books Jul 2016 20min Permalink
On the relationship between conservation, British farmers, and a possible Brexit.
James Meek London Review of Books Jun 2016 50min Permalink