London Review of Books

The London Review of Books , LRB for short , is a bi-weekly British literary magazine.

It was founded in 1979 by the previous editors of the Times Literary Supplement when The Times was suspended for a year. It appeared as a supplement to the New York Review of Books for the first six months . In May 1980 the London Review became an independent publication with a more left-wing political orientation.

The first editor of the London Review was Karl Miller ; the current editor is Mary-Kay Wilmers . In 2013, the circulation was 62,142 copies, making LRB the literary magazine with the highest circulation in Europe.

Authors

Well-known authors include:

Tariq Ali Martin Amis Benedict Anderson John Ashbery Julian Barnes Mary Beard Alan Bennett Tony Blair Anita Brookner Angela Carter Stanley Cavell Bruce Chatwin Terry Eagleton William Empson Anne Enright Martha Gellhorn Stephen Greenblatt Marc Greif Seymour M. Hersh Christopher Hitchens Eric Hobsbawm

Frank Kermode John Lanchester Pankaj Mishra Richard Lloyd Parry Hilary coat Tom Nairn Andrew O'Hagan Tom Paulin Adam Phillips Alex Ross (music critic) Edward Said Elaine Showalter Jacqueline Rose Richard Rorty Salman Rushdie Iain Sinclair Susan Sunday Marina Warner James Wood Slavoj Žižek

Web links

• London Review of Books Official Website
• Elizabeth Day: Is the LRB the best magazine in the world? , in: The Guardian (online edition), March 9, 2014.