[HN Gopher] Heart, head, life, fate
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Heart, head, life, fate
Author : Petiver
Score : 19 points
Date : 2026-03-13 03:29 UTC (4 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.lrb.co.uk)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.lrb.co.uk)
| ghurtado wrote:
| FYI this is a very long winded and meandering history of
| phrenology and palm reading.
|
| So if that's your thing, go nuts
| imzadi wrote:
| 6 long paragraphs before it even tells you the name of the book
| it is reviewing or what it is about?
| Tomte wrote:
| The name London Review of Books may mislead you. Ostensibly,
| the articles are book reviews, but barely. The books reviewed
| are more starting points into long-form articles on their
| subject matter. The articles are uniformly fantastic, though
| obviously not uniformly interesting to everyone. I find that
| every issue carries about three to five articles I find really
| interesting.
|
| I've just yesterday read an old LRB issue where in one article
| the book ostensibly reviewed was first mentioned after three
| whole pages!
| nxobject wrote:
| Parent already knows this, but for completeness to the
| grandparent, the LRB is part of a small genre of literary
| journal that does this with "reviews of books". The New York
| Review of Books (which begat the LRB), and the Times Literary
| Supplement when it's feeling risque.
| zemvpferreira wrote:
| Am I getting old or did it use to be much better 10 or 20
| years ago? Half the LRB feels so politicised to me now, and
| the other half barely feels erudite. Was I just too young to
| pick it up back then?
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