Holding up the April 2 issue of London Review of Books. Showing the front cover which is a pencil sketch in grey and red of a woman facing away from viewer. A disheveled bun sits low on her neck, hand on hips, feet slid into slippers and, and a button open at neck of her dress. Her hands are on her hips and body language is tired and maybe contemplative. The image is framed by a solid teal frame around the whole cover and the heading “Patricia Lockwood reads Willa Cather” in red.

Holding up a copy of London Review of books in afternoon light. It is open to the table of contents for the issue.

TFW a new issue arrives when I’m between books. Sigh. ☺️

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This month’s #LondonReviewOfBooks: John Smith reviews Jane White’s new book. Jane was in last month’s edition reviewing Stephen Smith’s book about his and his father John’s trip with Peter White to review frescoes in Italy, where, coincidentally, they lunched with Julian Barnes & Tricia Lockwood.

Brett Christophers · Assume the worst: Where our waste goes Just as Big Oil has repeatedly failed to deliver on pledges to begin decarbonising, so too the promises of plastics...

Vol. 47 No. 21 · 20 November 2025
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#WasteWars: Dirty Deals, International Rivalries and the Scandalous Afterlife of Rubbish
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Writer & filmmaker Xiaolu Guo on her feminist reimagining of Melville’s Moby Dick, with Philip Hoare | London Review Bookshop Gender, race and identity collide on the open seas in Xiaolu Guo’s Call Me Ishmaelle (Chatto), a powerful, feminist reimagining of Herman Melville’s Moby…

Really interesting discussion. I’ll have to give this a read.

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@lrb.co.uk Decided tibsubscribe. £12 for 12 issues & all online content initially. #LondonReviewOfBooks

Truly brilliant review of Peter Parker’s 2 magnum opuses (or magna opera if you’re a Latin stickler) about life for gay men in London when gay sex was illegal, by one of my favourite contemporary authors, Alan Hollinghurst, in the #LondonReviewOfBooks. #PrideMonth 🌈 (1/2)

Two copies of the London Review of Books lay on my sage green tablecloth. They are Volume 47 Numbers 4 and 5. Gold wire glasses and a pink glass with pink kombucha drink sit next to them. The top copy has a large pink cover color and a pink, polka dot fish image in front of a microphone.

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The image features two literary magazines: the "London Review of Books," dated November 7, 2024, with articles including “What was Bidenomics?” and pieces by Jenny Turner and Julian Barnes. Below it is "The New York Review of Bookd🍸🐈

O man, away for a week, mail got delivered:

this is so great 🍸😺

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Ah, die neue Times Literary Supplement ist da. (Baudelaire inside!) Noch bis Ende des Jahres läuft mein Abo für die #LondonReviewofBooks. Davon muss ich mich leider verabschieden. Seitenlange politische Essays? Das finde ich in anderen Zeitschriften ausreichend. Da kommt mir die Literatur zu kurz…