Two artists withdraw work from Barbican show in row over Gaza talk
Yto Barrada and Cian Dayrit ask for art to be removed from exhibition after venue pulled out of hosting speech about war
February 2024
Barbican backs away from hosting talk about Gaza war
London Review of Books ‘disappointed’ at venue’s decision not to host lectures, including one by Pankaj Mishra
December 2022
Alan Bennett contemplates losing friends and the Queen in 2022 diary
The playwright details Barry Cryer’s comedic phone calls and reveals what her majesty said to Prunella Scales in his annual journal for London Review of Books
October 2022
No journalist had a deeper sense of history than Ian Jack
Donald Macintyre
Endlessly curious and knowledgeable, the Guardian columnist was renowned for his interest in the industrial working class from which he came
December 2021
Alan Bennett dedicates Kipling poem A Dead Statesman to Boris Johnson
The playwright’s annual diary excerpt criticises the prime minister and Donald Trump and recalls an encounter with Philip Roth
August 2021
Political journals ring the changes in a battle of ideas – and a fight for readers
Former Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger’s arrival at Prospect is part of a trend that is raising the stakes of debate in Britain
January 2021
London Review of Books editor Mary-Kay Wilmers steps down after 30 years
Influential editor and co-founder of the literary magazine to be succeeded by senior staff
December 2020
Alan Bennett’s 2020 diary reveals growing health struggles
At 86, the playwright says arthritis is increasingly restrictive, but also finds room for satirical jabs at Boris Johnson’s government and everyday comedy
July 2020
Mary-Kay Wilmers: 'At Faber, TS Eliot was referred to as the GLP – Greatest Living Poet'
The editor of the London Review of Books on its enduring appeal, the late Jenny Diski, and why she’s not ready to hand over the reins in her 80s
January 2020
Row over Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi erupts in the LRB
Dispute over whether the painting was for sale before its display at the National Gallery
November 2019
London Review of Books: An Incomplete History review – 40 years of the LRB
Rants, spats and intellectual seriousness from London’s literary elite
September 2019
The LRB is 40. We never thought it would last this long
The Observer’s theatre critic Susannah Clapp remembers the literary journal’s colourful early days
June 2018
Vida survey of gender bias in literary criticism shows 'stubborn imbalance'
Authors of report warn that continuing dominance of male writers ‘creates a dangerous lens through which the world is viewed’
October 2017
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Male writers still dominate book reviews and critic jobs, Vida study finds
The annual Vida count of authors across the world suggests about two-thirds of those published, and the critics who review them, are men – but their intersectionality survey is less conclusive
March 2017
Sam Miller: ‘What we had felt stronger than most father-son relationships’
Sam Miller grew up believing the celebrated editor Karl Miller was his father. At 16, he was told the truth, and 40 years on he’s written his memoir
August 2015
WB Yeats, the art teacher and a night at the sexologist’s
The lost story of a memorable evening with the poet is to be published after years in a dusty drawer
April 2015
Male writers continue to dominate literary criticism, Vida study finds
Women buy two-thirds of books sold but magazine coverage is centred on men – though picture is beginning to change
January 2015
AC Grayling defends Booker-winner Richard Flanagan after hatchet job
The Booker judge responds with his own stinging attack on Michael Hofmann, after the latter’s ‘silly’ review of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, writes Alison Flood
October 2014
Karl Miller: a man of distinction
Clive James remembers Karl Miller, the literary editor who helped to shape his career, and who countless writers considered their ideal reader
September 2014
Karl Miller obituary
Founding editor of the London Review of Books and, behind the scenes, a formative influence on the literature of his age
