Leo Robson
@leorobsonwriter
writing @lrb @newleftreview @bookforum @nytimes novel coming 2025 @riverrunbooks http://leorobson.substack.com editing @lit_review presenting @grantamag podcast
For the briefest of windows, my forthcoming book The Boys, a novel, hopefully enjoyable — and if not then certainly nice to look at — is available for pre-order at a discounted price. . . @QuercusBooks @riverrunbooks @Waterstones waterstones.com/book/the-boys/…
They say only a few people bought the Velvet Underground LP but they all went on to form a band. Similarly, all those who love @WhitStillman movies (and retweeted the clip below) appear to have a Substack.
The great @WhitStillman is coming to Edinburgh next week to screen and talk about Metropolitan.
I spoke to the New Statesman about the dawn of the post-literate society. Books are rapidly being replaced by addictive screen slop. In my view it is the most significant cultural and political and disaster of our time youtube.com/watch?v=hAVsoj…
Jon Fosse emerged from the Bergensian literary-philosophical milieu around the university where I teach. So I’m not impartial. But everyone should read him! He studied Heidegger and Wittgenstein, translated Adorno and Kafka, and (like the best Norwegian poets – Wergeland, Ibsen,…
Two of the most moving modern novels I know: Jon Fosse is extraordinary, a prose poet of loneliness and solitude. His language has a primal, musical quality — both frightening and reassuring. Wonderful works to take slowly, becoming immersed, lost, transfixed.
Come for the discussion of EDDINGTON; stay for some thoughts on Kiyoshi Kurosawa's CLOUD open.spotify.com/episode/3dSCuF…
Masked and QAnonymous: EDDINGTON, reviewed. newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…
Some v. good Trollope recommendations. I, too, loved Orley Farm, Can You Forgive Her? and Phineas Phin. (On the other hand Trollope satire & Barsetshire except Allington tend to be overvalued - "series attraction") @TrollopeSociety theguardian.com/books/2015/apr…
Today we publish Granta 172: Badlands. Read the summer edition online for free for the next five days or subscribe today and receive unlimited access to this issue, as well as our archive. granta.com/products/grant…
On the best movies of 2025 so far, including MISERICORDIA, CAUGHT BY THE TIDES, ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL, FRIENDSHIP and THE SHROUDS, for @ringer theringer.com/2025/07/16/mov…
Enjoyed discussing the “death of English literature” with @j_amesmarriott and @tanjil_rashid_ on the @NewStatesman podcast podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/is-…
Some reflections on the Hollywood screenwriter David Koepp and his role in Spielberg's Jurassic films franchise, from the 1993 original to the new, largely entertaining Jurassic World Rebirth, thought on structure, plotting, details of the fictional world leorobson.substack.com/p/28-years-lat…
“I have no ideological position on this conflict. I approach it simply as a lawyer and a historian. But I sometimes wonder what Israel’s defenders would regard as unacceptable, if the current level of Israeli violence in Gaza is not enough. This is not self-defence. It is not…
'Charming and funny, warm and inquisitive, Dyer provides a page-turner that entertains you just long enough to forget the sad fact of it all, that even camera-less pictures warp and fade.' @lifeisnotanovel reviews Geoff Dyer's new memoir, Homework: thelondonmagazine.org/article/review…
The Times have allowed me to print the distilled essence of my life philosophy - I wrote this about why everyone should be a pessimist. thetimes.com/comment/column…
I’ve made plenty of poor decisions in life but one good one was starting a book on Jannik Sinner & Carlos Alcaraz in late 2023 it comes out in a month
Hal Hartley's first film in 11 years finally has its world premiere/US release date!!
Hal Hartley's 'Where to Land' will debut September 12 @RoxyCinemaNYC. It's among our most-anticipated films of 2025: thefilmstage.com/the-100-most-a…
I wrote about the late Michael Haag’s unfinished biography of Lawrence Durrell for @thetimes this week ‘That mean shabby little island’ — why Lawrence Durrell hated England thetimes.com/article/69e63c…
The Christian Criticism of T.S. Eliot - catholicworldreport.com/2025/05/18/the…
The latest edition of my newsletter rounding up everything interesting I read in books and on the internet last week week. This one covers AI, TikTok, the renaissance, chess, the fertility crisis, the invention of printing and more! api.omarshehata.me/substack-proxy…
My review-essay on Geoff Dyer’s Homework from the June/July issue of @TheLondonMag is now online, with reference to Raymond Williams, Roland Barthes, Keats, Thelonious Monk, Where Eagles Dare, etc. Some are calling it ‘subtly authoritative’. Read it here: thelondonmagazine.org/article/review…