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London Review of Books
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Headings
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H1 London Review of Books
H2 The New Barricades
H2 How was slavery justified?
H2 In Paris
H2 Trump’s Consigliere
H2 Fredric the Great
H2 Hume picks a side
H2 In the latest issue
H2 A Day in the Age of AI
H2 Prediction Markets
H2 Prynne’s People
H2 ‘Switzy’
H2 On Shelagh Delaney
H2 Ralph Ellison’s Interventions
H2 On Richard Dadd
H2 On Paul Mellon
H2 Midterm Chicanery
H2 Skateable Cities
H2 John Clare’s Circumstances
H2 Thiebaud’s Sweet Tooth
H2 From the blog
H2 Podcasts & Videos
H2 Fascism in a time of AI
H2 Who were the English?
H2 On Politics: What is political writing?
H2 On Politics: What happened to the intellectual?
H2 Who’s afraid of realism? ‘Pnin’ by Vladimir Nabokov
H2 The Man Behind the Curtain: ‘Middlemarch’ by George Eliot
H2 Who’s afraid of realism? ‘The Death of Ivan Ilyich’ by Leo Tolstoy
H2 The Philosophy of ‘To the Lighthouse’
H2 Albert Camus: A Short Life
H2 Eric Hobsbawm: The Consolations of History
H2 LRB in NYC: 27-29 October
H2 Close Readings 2026
H3 Daniella Shreir
H3 Alexander Bevilacqua
H3 Nabila Ramdani
H3 Deborah Friedell
H3 Toril Moi
H3 Colin Kidd
H3 22 October 2026
H3 Mimi Jiang
H3 Geoff Mann
H3 Iain Sinclair
H3 Ange Mlinko
H3 Susannah Clapp
H3 Leo Robson
H3 Nick Richardson
H3 Elizabeth Goldring
H3 Aziz Huq
H3 Francis Gooding
H3 Camille Ralphs
H3 Paul Keegan
H3 Moral Injury
H3 In Paris Duplicate text
H3 Waiting for Water
H3 Write a Novel in Thirty Days
H3 ‘Close your eyes and enjoy the music’
H3 Dédiabolisation
H3 Bolsonaro Redux?
H3 Here Are Some of the Poems Anne Carson Has Written and You Are Welcome to Them
H3 Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor and Adam Shatz
H3 Pablo Scheffer and Thomas Jones
H3 Lea Ypi and James Butler
H3 William Davies and James Butler
H3 Patricia Lockwood and James Wood
H3 Tom McCarthy and Thomas Jones
H3 James Wood and Elif Batuman
H3 Jonathan Rée and James Wood
H3 Jonathan Rée and James Wood Duplicate text
H3 Lydia Davis’s Autumn lecture, live podcast events and more
H3 Dying, or Doing Something Else: Lydia Davis on Marcus Aurelius and Other Stoics
H3 November Late Night Shopping
H3 Anne Serre & Alice Blackhurst: Virtue and Rosalind
H3 Download the LRB app
H3 Sign up to our newsletters
H3 Please enable Javascript
H3 About
H3 Help
H3 Follow Us
H4 More search Options
H4 Browse by Subject
H4 Selma Dabbagh
H4 Nabila Ramdani Duplicate text
H4 Hassan Ayman Herzallah
H4 Alfred Nunney
H4 Olivia Giovetti
H4 Nabila Ramdani Duplicate text
H4 Forrest Hylton
H4 Empty heading
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The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 25 external links on this page.

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