I just caught up with Owen Hatherley's superb demolition of Battersea Power Station from february's #LRB. It appears to be free to read so here you are https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n03/owen-hatherley/in-battersea

"A marketplace of passions"… This piece by William Davies in the #LRB just keeps coming back to me.

It's the decent into unreason.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n10/william-davies/a-dog-in-the-fight

Yay! Just in time 💃 I’m halfway through No11 #LRB

“If it is a real danger that civil war may threaten democracy, it is also a real danger that democracy may die because its defenders refuse to start one.“

“What are you willing to do.” James Meek in the #LRB

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n10/james-meek/what-are-you-willing-to-do

A great example of exactly what you come to the LRB for - a review that is far more rewarding than the book it focuses on, which you wouldn't really want to read anyway
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n12/john-lahr/toots-they-owned-you
#writing #hollywood #LRB #cinema #history

#LRB bravo à lui j'aurais fait exactement la même chose à sa place

Great article about #spotify and #streaming in the #LRB.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n09/daniel-cohen/to-monopolise-our-ears

I have been enjoying reading about "Chips" Channon in the LRB, who seems to have been a hilariously awful human being.

#LondonReviewOfBooks #LRB

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n02/geoffrey-wheatcroft/not-even-a-might-have-been

"Why the fuck would I have anything of value to add on top of these ancient philosophers, these scientists, experts and authors?"

#LRB #TheKidsAreAlright

'I'm writing'

#LRB #BusterKeaton

There'd better not be WiFi on this train.

#LRB

‘In 1993, when Morrison won the Nobel Prize, men (including one Nobel winner) asked me, ‘Is she that good?’ as though I might know this in some way they could not – I could read like a woman, perhaps.’

Anne Enright on Toni Morrison

#Books #LRB

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n01/anne-enright/eyes-that-bite

On maps of Ikea, slime mould ‘found the exit, more efficiently than the scientists who set the task)’

#LRB

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n10/francis-gooding/from-its-myriad-tips

The #LRB strolls in fashionably late, as usual.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n04/terry-eagleton/what-s-your-story

#storytelling #narrative

"Who wants this Tate Modern for philistines, this Senate House for illiterates, this Berghain for people who can’t dance?"

#LRB Spot. On.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n03/owen-hatherley/in-battersea#:~:text=Who%20wants%20this%20Tate%20Modern%20for%20philistines%2C%20this%20Senate%20House%20for%20illiterates%2C%20this%20Berghain%20for%20people%20who%20can%E2%80%99t%20dance%3F

There are more good sentences in an Andrew O’Hagan review than in most books.

#LRB #Books

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n24/andrew-o-hagan/short-cuts

#Podcast #LRB neoliberal poster boy Friedrich Hayek #Neoliberalism
https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/the-lrb-podcast/the-hayek-puzzle

John Whitfield in the #LRB @lrb on the UK university research evaluation process, Research Excellence Framework #REF

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n02/john-whitfield/a-bit-of-everything

‘A novel is a bicycle, and readers must pedal.’

The best description of the act and art of reading that this reader has ever read.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v35/n11/adam-mars-jones/darkness-and-so-on-and-on

#Books #Audiobooks #LRB

Nothing -- no stunning fireworks nor well-intended resolutions nor serious reflection -- makes me feel more like a new year is about to begin than the annual renewal of my subscription to the #LondonReviewOfBooks. I instantly get the feeling that there is a new year with an overwhelming amount of reading ahead. And that's all I want, honestly. #lrb