Writing tagged: ‘LRB’
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Book review: ‘London Review of Books: an incomplete history’
A profusely illustrated coffee-table tome.
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LRB letter: ‘The reaction economy’
On Charles Darwin’s use of photography in his book about human and animal emotions.
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Newsletter No. 21: ‘Positively sluggish’
Richard Mabey · Tim Dee · Mark Cocker · Amy Liptrot · Kathleen Jamie · Patti Smith · Alan Bennett · Melissa Harrison · Urban Birder · Patrick Wright · Clive James · and more…
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Newsletter No. 18: ‘169 in giraffe-years’
Julian Hoffman · CGP Grey · WG Sebald · Kathleen Jamie · Tim Dee · LRB · Alan Bennett · Caught by the River
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LRB letter: ‘Weather-forecasting frogs’
On the unlikely 17th and 18th-century German fashion of keeping tree frogs to forecast the weather.
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LRB letter: ‘Ancient Refrigerators’
A possible solution to a well-known conundrum about Ancient Rome.
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The power of the anecdote
On the effectiveness of anecdotes and understatement in conveying catastrophic events.
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LRB letter: ‘Darwin’s Flatulence’
How Charles Darwin’s legendary flatulence wasn’t all it’s cracked up to be.