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unusual facts about London Review of Books



Katia Kapovich

Her work has appeared in periodicals including the London Review of Books, News from the Republic of Letters, and Novy Mir (in Russian).

Lorna Sage

Sage's book reviews appeared in the London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, the New York Times Book Review and The Observer, mentioning the works of Angela Carter, as well as covering studies of works of numerous authors, including Christina Stead, Doris Lessing, Thomas Love Peacock, John Milton and Thomas Hardy.

Love in a Dark Time

The first essay was a long review, published originally in the London Review of Books, on A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition by Gregory Woods.

Pankaj Mishra

In 2011, when Mishra criticised Niall Ferguson's book Civilisation: The West and the Rest in the London Review of Books, Ferguson threatened to sue for libel.

Ripley Bogle

Zachary Leader in the London Review of Books compares the lead character novel to John Self and Charles Highway in Martin Amis's Money and The Rachel Papers: "Ripley Bogle isn't as good a novel as The Rachel Papers, let alone Money, but its author has talent and nerve".

Toh Hsien Min

His poems have appeared in many literary journals (e.g. London Magazine, the London Review of Books and Poetry Salzburg Review) and have been translated into Finnish, French, Spanish, Russian and Italian.


see also

Andrew Cockburn

Apart from his books he has written for National Geographic, Los Angeles Times, The London Review of Books, Smithsonian, Vanity Fair, Harper's Magazine, CounterPunch, Condé Nast Traveler, New York Times, and the Dungarvan Observer.