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Title: London Review of Books: An Anthology by Jane Hindle, Alan Bennett, Perry Anderson ISBN: 1-85984-121-X Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: November, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)

Rating: 3
Summary: Review the Review of the Re...
Comment: Having read this selection reminds me that the New York Review of Books, itself mostly second-rate, is still considerably better than the LRB. How often one wishes to take a pin to these self-obsignatory gasbags!

Don't believe me? Compare a better journal (yes, not a review but a journal) from better days: the Partisan Review during the 40's, for example.

Rating: 5
Summary: The most sophisticated writing of any literary anthology.
Comment: For twenty years the London review of Books has invited the world's leading writers, thinkers and social commentators to contribute essay length articles on subjects as diverse as Kosovo, Cod, and Mimiesis in Plato's Republic. This anthology is just a small but tantalising selection of some of those pieces, but it whets the apetite and leaves the reader wanting more. The most intelligent writing of any publication, the LRB sets itself aside from its competition through its continued commitment to the freedom of its writers. Never short, and often quite challening, the LRB is controversial and forthright. This anthology represents the most independently minded collection of writing that can be found in any literary magazine, but for the LRB its all quite normal.