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Would not give up my LRB subscription for the world. Has made me somehow feel smarter after reading it every time over the last fifteen or so years.
by vr46 5y ago
Would not give up my LRB subscription for the world. Has made me somehow feel smarter after reading it every time over the last fifteen or so years.
- billfruit 5y agoHow would you compare it with Paris Review/ New Criterion/ Reading/ Granta/ The Happy Reader/TLS etc?
- vr46 5y agoI can only really comment on a few of those. The Paris Review and New Criterion are very US-centric and very much stick to literature and arts, much narrower in scope. Granta I remember from being a teenager and I don’t know if much has changed but it was very much focused on authors and stories whereas the LRB seems to exist closer to reality, in that it illuminates both contemporary issues and historical ones with great expertise and is doesn’t shy from being exceedingly political, encouraging debate. It’s like a deeper, more positive version of Private Eye in some of its work, and doesn’t assume that its readers are immersed in the specialised language of literature, art or drama, and is very refreshing in a world where the US dominates English-language writing. They also give a free print subscription to a friend of a subscriber - sadly I’ve just given mine rise you could have had it and potentially enjoyed it for a year. It’s also more frequent which allows it to move quickly, somewhere between a weekend newspaper supplement and a monthly periodical.
- billfruit 5y agoThanks for your insights.