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Leo Robson
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Leo Robson
@leorobsonwriter
novel THE BOYS tinylink.net/S4cMG
editing @lit_review
presenting @grantamag
leorobson.substack.com
writing @lrb @newleftreview @bookforum @nytimes
UK
Joined June 2014
- My @bookforum sort of longread on the novelist, critic, biographer and story writer Muriel Spark, her friendship with Waugh and Greene, her ideas about fiction and ideas about her (especially those of Frank Kermode) bookforum.com/print/3202/the…
- Fredric Jameson, the greatest Anglophone cultural theorist, has died, 90. I tried to do justice to a fifth of what he did in this piece for @NewLeftReview where his first great statement on postmodernism - along with a number of other great essays - appeared exactly 40 years ago
- Here’s my @LRB piece, part cultural history, part metaphysical memoir, all political manifesto, about growing up in cinemas, cast incl Sontag, Cavell, Thomson, @PaulineKael @JonathanRomney @TheMikeFiggis @WhitStillman @ICALondon @szacharek @ThePCCLondon lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/…
- My fairly long @LRB piece on cinephilia, filmgoing, and London / urban / human loneliness, and aging and time, with stuff on novels and Sontag and Kael and the history of @AMCTheatres and @ODEONCinemas and @lesinrocks and Cahiers
- Here's my new @bookforum essay about J M Coetzee, his new novella The Pole and his relationship to letting loose, having /not having sex, showing emotion, being dull, representing reality, reading poetry, and writing (and speaking) in the English language bookforum.com/print/3002/j-m…
- Exactly one hundred years ago Joseph Conrad, one of the best novelists ever, died at home in Kent aged 66. My late friend @rcwlitagency David Miller published a totally wonderful novel about it Today. I wrote a @NewYorker piece about what he got up to here
- What do people (literally, physically) do when they're reviewing a book? Takes notes in the margins, on a pad, at a laptop? And then what? I want detail–the more granular, banal, and weird the better. . .
- Here’s my somewhat lengthy @NewLeftReview essay about the stakes of contemporary political criticism — why we might want (or be forced) to interpret narratives, via the work of Fredric Jameson, Timothy Bewes, Rita Felski, postcritique and the ‘method wars’
- Here's my @NewStatesman essay on the feminist critic + film-maker Laura Mulvey, subject of a @BFI season, and the evolution + afterlife of her essay on the "male gaze", "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema", which appeared 50 years ago in @Screen_Journal
- Some @NewStatesman thoughts on the master, Thomas Pynchon, via the slightly frustrating Shadow Ticket with thoughts on his surprising humanism, and influence on Rushdie, Gibson, Franzen, One Battle After Another (decent) and other Paul Thomas Anderson work
- Awful to hear that Peter Schjeldahl has died. This fantastic @newyorker piece on Wallace Stevens shows him at his best in his one of less discussed roles, biography-minded critic of poetry
- My somewhat lengthy @NewLeftReview Sidecar reflections on the life, work and legacy of the Czech writer Milan Kundera, often wonderful novelist, reliably strident polemicist, with reference to figures he was and wasn’t like and who did and didn’t like him
- Here’s my @NewStatesman #longread about @TheAthleticUK’s Michael Cox (@Zonal_Marking) and modern football analysis, featuring contributions from @jonawils, @AFHStewart, @oilysailor, @Worville, @AliMaxwell_ (and with Graeme Souness as the villain): newstatesman.com/ideas/2020/10/…
