London Review of Books23h
Eulogy for Dani
Daniela Z wanted to be a doctor like her father. He died in 2023, soon after her brother and mother, as a consequence ...
London Review of Books2d
Alan Bennett reads from ‘The Uncommon Reader’
Alan Bennett reads from his short story, ‘The Uncommon Reader’, first published in the LRB in 2007, in which HM the Queen drifts accidentally into reading – and reading subversively at that – when her ...
London Review of Books2d
Managing Discontent
Starmer’s strategy of modest progress and alliance-building could be scuppered by the fiscal hawks in his ...
London Review of Books4d
Conversations in Philosophy: 'Fear and Trembling' by Søren Kierkegaard
The series begins with Søren Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling (1843), an exploration of faith through the story of Abraham and Isaac. Like most of Kierkegaard’s published work, Fear and Trembling ...
London Review of Books6d
Among the Ancients II: Marcus Aurelius
For their final conversation Among the Ancients, Emily and Tom turn to the contradictions of the Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius. Said by Machiavelli to be the last of the ‘five ...