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Netflix has just quietly added a forgotten BBC masterpiece

Sep 28, 2024 | metro.co.uk | John Lanchester |Pierra Willix

A 2015 BBC drama based on a best-selling novel has quietly been added to Netflix nine years after it first hit screens. The three-part series Capital was an adaptation of the novel of the same name by John Lanchester. It followed the residents of a road in South London as the value of each house in the street is approaching £2 million.
John Lanchester: The Consumer Price Index reveals much - Washington Post

Sep 24, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | John Lanchester

Sorry, a summary is not available for this article at this time. Please try again later. Mount Yasur, a volcano on Tanna Island in Vanuatu, has been erupting continuously at least since it was first observed by Captain James Cook in 1774. The U.S. Army’s preferred font is Arial with a point size of 12. One of the main ways the Russian military identifies Ukrainian command posts is by locating Starlink terminals through drone surveillance.
John Lanchester, Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, Tom Crewe and James Butler

Jul 5, 2024 | lrb.co.uk | John Lanchester |Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite |Tom Crewe |James Butler

John Lanchester, Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, Tom Crewe and James Butler Your browser does not support the audio element. John Lanchester, Tom Crewe and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite join James Butler to dissect Keir Starmer's victory and the historic collapse of the Conservative Party.
Inside the Thatcher Larp

Jul 5, 2024 | lrb.co.uk | John Lanchester

Larping, or live action role play, is a hobby in which people dress up as their preferred fantasy object – elves, goblins, Cavaliers v. Roundheads, Confederates v. Unionists, aliens, victims of a zombie apocalypse, intergalactic adventurers, und so weiter – and collectively participate in a shared imaginative world. The biggest Larps go on for days and involve thousands of people, and are famous for being intense, immersive experiences.
The Case of Agatha Christie

Aug 23, 2023 | lrb.co.uk | John Lanchester

The Case of Agatha Christie Your browser does not support the audio element. Agatha Christie, writes John Lanchester, ‘is the only writer by whom I’ve read more than fifty books. So – why?’In the second of our summer readings, Lanchester dissects Christie’s compulsive readability, and considers why, despite her brazen lack of style, she was a great experimental formalist.
Putting The Silicon In Silicon Valley

Apr 18, 2023 | theava.com | John Lanchester

Picture the following age-old scene: a writer sitting at a kitchen table, pretending to work. Set it 40 years ago. The Reagan/Thatcher Conservatives are in power and everything is broken, but our subject is the writer’s stuff. On the table is a typewriter; to one side is a radio, to another is a phone; also in the room are a fridge, an oven, a hot plate, a toaster, a set of car keys and a vacuum cleaner. Now fast-forward to the same scene 40 years later.
I chip fanno girare il mondo

Apr 13, 2023 | internazionale.it | John Lanchester

Immaginate questa scena: uno scrittore seduto al tavolo della cucina che fa finta di lavorare. Siamo a Londra quarant’anni fa. Nel Regno Unito i conservatori sono al potere ed è andato tutto in malora, ma a noi interessano gli oggetti intorno allo scrittore. Sul tavolo c’è una macchina da scrivere; da una parte c’è una radio a transistor, dall’altra un telefono; nella stanza ci sono anche un frigorifero, un forno, un piano cottura, un tostapane, le chiavi della macchina e un aspirapolvere.
Putting the Silicon in Silicon Valley

Mar 8, 2023 | lrb.co.uk | Chris Miller |John Lanchester

Picture the following age-old scene: a writer sitting at a kitchen table, pretending to work. Set it forty years ago. The Conservatives are in power and everything is broken, but our subject is the writer’s stuff. On the table is a typewriter; to one side is a radio, to another is a phone; also in the room are a fridge, an oven, a hob, a toaster, a set of car keys and a vacuum cleaner. Now fast-forward to the same scene forty years later.