Byline: CLAIRE HARMAN THE EITINGONS: A TWENTIETH-CENTURY STORY by Mary-Kay Wilmers (Faber, [pounds sterling]20) NOT many memoirists can boast huge wealth, powerful connections and a cold-blooded executioner in the family but Mary-Kay Wilmers, the respected editor of the London Review of Books, turns out to be one.
Aa(London: Verso: 2007) A regular contributor to the London Review of Books, Jacqueline Rose has authored a compelling new book which Sarah Roy of Harvard University correctly predicts is destined to become a standard in the field of literature on Zionism.
Better than procreation WHEN The Dikler requires a break from studying the form and yearns to turn his mind to higher things, he likes nothing better than to curl up and peruse The London Review Of Books, in a recent edition of which he came across this marvellous personal ad: My most humbling moment was the birth of my first grandchild - it reads but goes on - No
The venerable London Review of Books has published a compendium of the weirdest and funniest advertisements from the eccentric readers who write to its personals column seeking love, sex or simply correspondence with like-minded people.
My Name is Naughty Lola is a collection of lonely hearts taken from the London Review of Books, a magazine that has achieved notoriety for the very weirdness of its personals, slotted alongside some of the world's most highly-regarded academic thinking.
You would hardly guess from reading them that intellectual publications such as the London Review of Books (LRB) and the New York Review of Books (NYRB), are likewise part of the media, purvey some of the sharpest comment on literature and politics and enjoy readerships that straddle the globe.
