The London Review of Books (or LRB) is a fortnightly British literary magazine.

The London Review was founded in 1979 by former editors of the Times Literary Supplement, during the year-long lock-out at The Times. For its first six months, it appeared as an insert in the New York Review of Books. In May 1980, the London Review became an independent publication with a distinctly radical editorial orientation.

Among its contributors have been Edward Said, James Wood (critic), William Empson, Martha Gellhorn, Bruce Chatwin, Christopher Hitchens, Benedict Anderson, Tariq Ali, Frank Kermode, Terry Eagleton, Elaine Showalter, Stephen Greenblatt, Tom Paulin, Eric Hobsbawm, Alan Bennett, Adam Phillips, Susan Sontag, John Ashbery, Richard Rorty, Stanley Cavell, Slavoj Žižek, Jacqueline Rose, Marina Warner, Angela Carter, Martin Amis, Anita Brookner, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes, Hilary Mantel, Colm Tóibín, John Lanchester and Andrew O'Hagan.

The London Review’s first editor was Karl Miller; the current editor is Mary-Kay Wilmers. As of January 2004, its circulation was 42,700.

External link

• London Review of Books website (http://www.lrb.co.uk/)