Deborah Friedell
@deborahfriedell.bsky.social
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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...
Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award - NYU Journalism
Matthew Power was an award-winning journalist who reported empathetically on the human […]
journalism.nyu.edu
November 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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...
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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:
Attendance is free! Tickets here:
Christmas at the Bookshop
Join us this Christmas for late shopping evenings throughout the festive period.
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November 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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:
Attendance is free! Tickets here:
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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...
Book now:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nyc-lectur...
NYC Lecture: Adam Tooze on Electrostates, Petrostates & the New Cold War
The 2025 LRB Autumn Lecture: a new annual lecture in New York
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October 13, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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...
Book now:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nyc-lectur...
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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October 8, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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...
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Based on the novel "Box Hill" by none other than Adam Mars-Jones! @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
The trailer for Harry Lighton’s ‘PILLION’ starring Harry Melling & Alexander Skarsgård.
In theaters February 2026.
In theaters February 2026.
October 1, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Based on the novel "Box Hill" by none other than Adam Mars-Jones! @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
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...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v0...
Tony Harrison · Poem: ‘V.’
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September 27, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v0...
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'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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September 17, 2025 at 12:33 PM
'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...
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‘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...
New on the blog: Amjad Iraqi on Gaza.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
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...
www.lrb.co.uk
July 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
‘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...
New on the blog: Amjad Iraqi on Gaza.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
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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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July 12, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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...
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...
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.
www.newyorker.com
July 12, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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...
Of course Superman is an immigrant. I wrote about him for the @newyorker.com in 2013: www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
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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July 4, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Zohran's father, Mahmood Mamdani, wrote for @lrb.co.uk about his family's expulsion from Uganda www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Doing a lil’ local talk tomorrow night, come on out southeast London!
July 3, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Doing a lil’ local talk tomorrow night, come on out southeast London!
"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'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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June 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM
"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'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...
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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 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…
www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk
May 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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 www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
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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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May 27, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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...
Reposted by Deborah Friedell
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...
Thomas Powers on 'The Great Gatsby' in the @lrb.co.uk:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...
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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April 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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...
Thomas Powers on 'The Great Gatsby' in the @lrb.co.uk:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...
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...
@atahualpavasari.bsky.social
@moonjets.bsky.social
@lrb.co.uk
@atahualpavasari.bsky.social
@moonjets.bsky.social
@lrb.co.uk
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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April 7, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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...
@atahualpavasari.bsky.social
@moonjets.bsky.social
@lrb.co.uk
@atahualpavasari.bsky.social
@moonjets.bsky.social
@lrb.co.uk
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‘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...
Deborah Friedell on Elon Musk:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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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March 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
‘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...
Deborah Friedell on Elon Musk:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
"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...
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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March 22, 2025 at 10:27 AM
"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...
from @danielsoar.bsky.social's astonishing essay on the Brothers K: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...