"Around the world in the LRB Archive"
August 19, 2016 3:13 PM   Subscribe

One Hundred Diaries is a map with links to a selection of a hundred short personal essays that have appeared in The London Review of Books throughout the years. The essays revolve around a place somewhere in the world , including Neal Ascherson writing about Ilullilat in Greenland, Jenny Diski writing about Christchurch in New Zealand, Perry Anderson writing about Nantes in France, Rebecca Solnit writing about New Orleans in the US, Hilary Mantel writing about Jeddah in Saudi Arabia and Anneke van Woudenberg writing about Kilo in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
posted by Kattullus (3 comments total) 30 users marked this as a favorite
 
First impression: I do love me some intersectin' of maps and literature.

Second impression: you know, maybe the "flyover states" have a legitimate gripe.
posted by rokusan at 5:08 PM on August 19, 2016 [1 favorite]


Thanks for this; the diaries have been one of my favorite features as an occasional LRB reader.
posted by languagehat at 5:23 PM on August 19, 2016 [1 favorite]


One nice thing about this collection is that it's a window on current events that are receding into history. I read Richard Gott's essay about the 2008 presidential election in Paraguay. I had only the vaguest recollection about Fernando Lugo and his eventual impeachment in 2012. Gott's article makes it clear he's it was that made the Paraguayan establishment so nervous.
posted by Kattullus at 12:18 PM on August 20, 2016


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