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Readers of London Review of Books are not only interested in books, but the culture that creates them. Reviews often discuss the entire topic of the book, not only critique its quality. The book's influence and place in society is also discussed in a lively manner.

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Readers of London Review of Books are not only interested in books, but the culture that creates them. Reviews often discuss the entire topic of the book, not only critique its quality. The book's influence and place in society is also discussed in a lively manner.

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• Format: Magazine
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• Publisher: Pro Circ
• ASIN: B00005N7XF
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• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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49 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's Not For Everyone, November 13, 2006

By	Robert Derenthal "bucherwurm" (California United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Those arriving at this Amazon page doubtless have some interest in books. In reading the reviews I note some disappointment with the contents of the London Review. Maybe if I provide a brief summary of one issue you can decide whether or not this is the book mazazine for you.

About fifty percent of the contributors to a current issue are PhD academics.
Here is a sampling of the articles in this issue:
1. Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870 to 1918.
2. A University of Chicago philosophy professor explores philosopher Alisdair McIntyre's conceps of truth and ethics as found in the recently released 2 volumes of McIntyres essays.
3. A review of Kostal's book "A Jurisprudence of Power:Victorian Empire and the Rule of Law".

You like fiction? In this issue you'll find reviews of the books of novelists Edward St. Aubyn, and M.J. Hyland. There is also an article about the German author Gunter Grass who reveals in a book that he was a member of the Waffen SS during WWII. Unfamiliar authors? For me too (except for Gunter Grass). Next month though they will be reviewing American author Richard Ford's new novel. Now him I know.

Rather than write a review of glowing praise or bleak condemnation I thought it best to simply tell you what's in it, and let you make up your own mind if this is the kind of book magazine you would like to read. Like the New York Review of Books you'll find a variety of articles that aren't about a book at all, and some books that are reviewed merely serve as a Hitchockian mcguffin for the reviewer to expand at length his opinions about the subject of the book.

I suppose a hierarchy of book magazines in terms of sophistication might be Bookmarks for the everyday fiction reader (It's a good magazine, in my opinion), and then, a step above, the New York Times Review, on up to the New York Review of Books, and then at the top the London Review of Books. Mind you I am not categorizing these mags in terms of the quality of writing. They all are good. It's just that if you want to be able to enjoy all of the London Review's article it might help if you were a polymath.

28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars best literary review in the world today, February 21, 2005

By	D. Jonnes (Washington, D. C., USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The London Review of Books is simply the best generalist journal on topics of literature, the arts, culture, history, politics, philosophy published in the world today--it now beats the NY Review of Books in terms of giving you the full picture and leaves the TLS back in the dust. If you want to get your bearings in the world of culture and politics, this is must reading.

Denis Jonnes
Washington D. C./Kitakyushu, Japan

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Journal for American Intellectuals as well as our British Counterparts, January 13, 2007

By	Young Patriot - See all my reviews

I love this journal. The way they review books is like no other book review page or magazine I've ever read. I find that by reading these articles we can as Americans involved in the world of ideas understand European thinking. Either way I'm renewing next year!