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London Review of Books Christmas Books

Faulting the Lemon

James Wood

  • Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature by Iris Murdoch

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James Wood’s How Fiction Works is just out. He is also the author of The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief and is a staff writer at the New Yorker.

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To the Sunlit Uplands
Richard Rorty replies to Bernard Williams

On Complaining
Elif Batuman: How to Stay Sane

‘I merely belong to them’
Judith Butler: Hannah Arendt

The Plight of the Poor in the Midst of Plenty
Jeremy Waldron on John Rawls

Effing the Ineffable
Glen Newey on Humanity: A Moral History of the 20th Century by Jonathan Glover