'Welcome to my last four years.' A search for accountability and a full, detailed explanation for Martha's death . . . www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

‘Israel’s allies are still buying time for Israel to change course or come to a deal with Hamas over how many trucks to allow in, as though food were a legitimate bargaining chip. Gazans cannot afford to wait for either.’ New on the blog: Amjad Iraqi on Gaza. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

On the Bayeux Tapestry, Anglo-French relations, Macron, European borders, small boats and British warships, from seven years ago www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The cartoonist Jules Feiffer once wrote that Superman’s real home wasn’t Krypton but “the planet Poland, from Lodz maybe, possibly Crakow, maybe Vilna.” Of course Superman is an immigrant. I wrote about him for the @newyorker.com in 2013: www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

Zohran's father, Mahmood Mamdani, wrote for @lrb.co.uk about his family's expulsion from Uganda www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Doing a lil’ local talk tomorrow night, come on out southeast London!

"When I wrote that I’d had sex over the years with 3,000 men, one of my contemporaries asked pityingly: ‘Why so few?’” Edmund White's essays in the @lrb.co.uk archive: www.lrb.co.uk/contributors... & Adam Phillips on White's autobiography www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v2...

Deadline a week today. The Martha Mills Young Writers’ Prize 2025 www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

Very late indeed to this remarkable Helen Sullivan piece, the opening of a crack into another (to me) world www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

F. Scott Fitzgerald said that he would attempt a serious novel one more time. If it failed, he would ‘come home, go to Hollywood and learn the movie business’. That is what he did. Then he died. Thomas Powers on 'The Great Gatsby' in the @lrb.co.uk: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...

Londres! Laurent Binet will be speaking with Thomas Jones on Tuesday at the French Institute in South Ken: www.institut-francais.org.uk/events-agend... @atahualpavasari.bsky.social @moonjets.bsky.social @lrb.co.uk

‘Musk offered to do to America just what he’d done for Twitter.’ Deborah Friedell on Elon Musk: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

"But the logic of Christ, as the inquisitor presents it, is essentially no different from the logic of capitalism. It’s your responsibility to save yourself: no one is going to do it for you." from @danielsoar.bsky.social's astonishing essay on the Brothers K: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...