LRB writers and editors
Contributors to the London Review of Books, the blog and our podcasts.
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@mrothberg.bsky.social
Memory, politics, critical theory, literature & sushi. At home in Berlin & Los Angeles. Author of Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization and The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators.
@nabilsalih.bsky.social
A writer and photographer from Baghdad: @lrb.co.uk, @nybooks.com, and elsewhere.
@jayowens.bsky.social
I’m Head of Audience at @lrb.co.uk and I write about environmental politics. ‘Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles’ (2023) 🔗 https://JayOwens.me 📧 https://disturbances.ghost.io/ 📙 https://hachette.co.uk/titles/jay-owens/dust/9781529362
@rentravailer.bsky.social
English prof, Oxford. Author and broadcaster. Early modern literature, history, and cross-cultural encounters. Fuelled by tea.
@crookedfootball.bsky.social
Political philosophy and theory, migration, refugees, Rousseau, photography, French literature, Crooked Timber, books, Bristol ... Wrote "Do States Have the Right to Exclude Immigrants" (Wiley/Polity, 2018). Pensioner.
@tomlukejohnson.bsky.social
historian of fifteenth-century England | writing a book about a fishing village | https://tomjohnson.carrd.co/
@kitchenbee.bsky.social
I write about food. And other things. Latest book is THE SECRET OF COOKING. Founder of TastEd ( a food education charity): the joy of vegetables & fruits.
@earlymodernjohn.bsky.social
Irishman in Yorkshire. Historian of language, education, mobility at the University of Leeds. Co-editor of the Historical Journal, occasional BBC radio presenter. Dad!
@mshwaikh.bsky.social
Based at the University of St Andrews where I research prisons, hunger strikes, limits of resilience, and decoloniality. Talk with me about sunsets and hikes.
@joedunthorne.bsky.social
Poet and novelist. New book, Children of Radium, my first nonfiction, out now. Order here: https://linktr.ee/joedunthorne Old books: Submarine/Wild Abandon/The Adulterants/O Positive www.joedunthorne.com
@padrig.bsky.social
Writer, academic, endotic traveller. Books: Blood Feather 2023; Real Oxford 2021. New book of essays, Ghost Stations, out in 2025 with CB Editions. FRSL. Prof of French and Comp Lit, Oxford. Rep'd Peter Straus RCW.
@annadella.bsky.social
Writer, author of ACCIDENTAL GODS: ON MEN UNWITTINGLY TURNED DIVINE (Metropolitan/ Granta). Essays in the LRB, NYRB, TLS, The Nation & elsewhere; senior editor at Bidoun. www.annadellasubin.com
@jessiechilds.bsky.social
Writer. Historian. Books: The Siege of Loyalty House God’s Traitors Henry VIII’s Last Victim Reviews for the Times and LRB jessiechilds.co.uk IG @jessiechildshistorian
@briangdillon.bsky.social
Writer. AFFINITIES, ESSAYISM & SUPPOSE A SENTENCE published by Fitzcarraldo & NYRB. GONE TO EARTH (on Hounds of Love) & AMBIVALENCE (on education) forthcoming.
@jonparryhis.bsky.social
Retired university History teacher. Modern British politics. Short history of British Liberalism published by Agenda April 2025. Occasional LRB reviewer. Part-time resident and unofficial chronicler of Sark.
@ewangibbs.bsky.social
Historian of work, energy, industry and protest. Author of Coal Country. Now writing the Unmaking of the British Working Class. Not getting that much more right wing as I get older.
@alicehunt.bsky.social
Professor at the University of Southampton. Author of Republic: Britain's Revolutionary Decade, 1649-1660 (Faber, 2024). Co-investigator on 'The Visible Crown: Elizabeth II and the Caribbean'. Represented by Felicity Bryan Associates.
@adamtooze.bsky.social
Chartbook Substack https://adamtooze.substack.com/ OnesandTooze podcast https://foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/ones-and-tooze/ C******* University historian, Director European Institute, Chair Cttee on Global Thought. Economics, history, theory, politi
@leaypi.bsky.social
Professor of Political Theory at the London School of Economics. Flas shqip.
@jjvincent.bsky.social
journalist and writer. author of BEYOND MEASURE, a history of measurement; a New Yorker, Economist, Times book of the year. former senior editor / AI reporter at The Verge. you can buy my book here: https://linktr.ee/BeyondMeasureBook
@erinmaglaque.bsky.social
writer, historian, critic. mostly for the lrb and nyrb. i’m writing a history of the female body, out in 2026. https://linktr.ee/erinmaglaque https://erinmaglaque.com
@danigaravelli.bsky.social
Freelance journalist and writer. Bylines at the Herald, the Guardian, the London Review of Books, the Big Issue, Prospect Magazine et al. Radio 4 documentaries, including Waiting for the Van & Prosecuting Polmont. Books, music, sunsets, hills.
@bealelab.bsky.social
Group Leader, Cell Biology of Infection Lab @thecrick; Nephrologist @Royal Free Hospital. Own views etc.
@melissacrt.bsky.social
Researcher and writer on women’s rights in Afghanistan Pre-order No Woman's Land: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kianahayeri/no-womans-land?ref=user_menu
@jonathancoe.bsky.social
Writer. New novel is THE PROOF OF MY INNOCENCE. Previous titles include WHAT A CARVE UP!, THE ROTTERS' CLUB, MIDDLE ENGLAND, MR WILDER AND ME ... https://linktr.ee/coelinks
@joriegraham.bsky.social
Resilience requires Imagination. Resistance requires Imagination. Recent book“To 2040”,’23(Laurel Prize for Ecological Writing) Carcanet (UK) Copper Canyon (US). “The Dream of The Unified Field”(Pulitzer Prize for Poetry).“[To]The Last [Be] Human”,’22.
@chrispower.bsky.social
I read books, write books (Mothers, A Lonely Man) and write about books (LRB, Guardian, NY Times etc). Booker judge 2025
@malcolmgaskill.bsky.social
Historian of witches and other things, mostly war and memory. Literary agent @NatFairweather at @rcwlitagency. Film agent: Rebecca Watson @VH_Associates.
@mgzimeta.bsky.social
Ethio-Brit literary journalist | Geopolitics & society | Former refugee | Philosophy PhD | Words in LRB, Paris Review, The Atlantic etc | Broadcasts for BBC TV and radio | website mgzimeta.com | For tech policy I'm @TechMilly.bsky.social
@tomstevenson.bsky.social
Foreign correspondent. Contributing Editor @ LRB. tomfstevenson@gmail.com https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2978-someone-else-s-empire
@arianneshahvisi.bsky.social
Philosopher of gender, race, borders, science | Essays in LRB, Guardian, Independent | Author of Arguing for a Better World https://tinyurl.com/2mn3zw8k
@paullaity.bsky.social
editing @lrb (again), after years as Guardian non-fic editor. Writing book for Penguin/Norton on sandals, sunbaths, muesli, 'bearded fruit-juice drinkers' etc. Campaigner for Martha's Rule in NHS.
@hekale.bsky.social
Expurgated, accelerated, improved and reduced. Deputy editor of @apollo-magazine.com
@davidkr.bsky.social
Socialist, historian. Books include The New Authoritarians, Against the Law. Writes for LRB, Truthout, Guardian, rs21.
@michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social
I write about kings and prophets. In but not from Vancouver, BC
@londonreviewbookshop.co.uk
London Review Bookshop. 20,000 titles on two floors in Bloomsbury, plus the best events in town 14 Bury Place, London, WC1A 2JL
@ppfideas.bsky.social
The History of Ideas Podcast. Every Thursday and Sunday with David Runciman. Wherever you get your podcasts. Find us at 🔗 www.ppfideas.com
@nicholasrl.bsky.social
Writer on law, constitutions, and human rights | Editor of LSE Public Policy Review | ReConstitution Fellow 2021/22
@ksetiya.bsky.social
MIT philosopher; would-be self-help guru; master of the semi-colon; podcast: http://bit.ly/-five-q; substack: http://bit.ly/-ksetiya; book: http://bit.ly/-life-is-hard-ks
@trillingual.bsky.social
Journalist and author in London. LRB, Guardian Long Read and others. Books about refugees in Europe and Britain's far right. danieltrilling.co.uk for contact details etc
@irinadumitrescu.bsky.social
Writer and professor of medieval literature. I'm a columnist at the TLS, sometimes co-host a podcast with Mary Wellesley at the LRB, and am one of the editors of @creativecritical.bsky.social. irinadumitrescu.com
@josephinequinn.bsky.social
Historian at Cambridge. In Search of the Phoenicians (2018) and How the World Made the West (2024). I like cats.
@jwmueller-pu.bsky.social
Political Theory and Intellectual History. Politics of Architecture and Political Iconography. Some Public Affairs Commentary. Posting in a personal capacity, but with professional capacities, one hopes. No DMs. https://jwmueller.princeton.edu/
@reproutopia.bsky.social
Philadelphia immigrant writer • ENEMY FEMINISMS: TERFS, POLICEWOMEN & GIRLBOSSES AGAINST LIBERATION • patreon.com/reproutopia • Full Surrogacy Now • Abolish the Family • essays @ LRB, Harper's, The Drift, Lux • octopus essay n+1 mag • "recovering academic"
@chrislintott.bsky.social
Astronomer, writer and zookeeper. Oxford, Gresham and the Zooniverse. The human half of the Dog Stars podcast. New book: 'Our Accidental Universe' (UK/rest of world) and 'Accidental Astronomy (US) now out.
@petergeoghegan.bsky.social
Investigative journalist. Author of best-selling book Democracy for Sale - and best-selling newsletter of same name. Sign up for Democracy for Sale newsletter: https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
@lalehkhalili.bsky.social
Politics, poetry, ports, pottymouth. She/her. Typos and dropped words in every post, because sharing is caring. Find me at l.khalili@exeter.ac.uk
@artcrimeprof.bsky.social
Art crime prof at CUNY. Follow for how-to tips on art forgery. Also: repatriation; monuments; classics; museum shenanigans. She/her; queer. www.artcrimeprof.com
@tricialockwood.bsky.social
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Raised on Coast Miwok land, longtime resident on Ramaytush Ohlone land, writer, climate person, feminist, wanderer. Just started a newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com.
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