History
The LRB was founded in 1979, during the year-long lock-out at The Times.
Its founding editors were Karl Miller, then professor of English at University College London, Mary-Kay Wilmers, formerly an editor at The Times Literary Supplement, and Susannah Clapp, a former editor at Jonathan Cape. For its first six months, it appeared as an insert in the New York Review of Books. In May 1980, the London Review became an independent publication with an orientation described by one of its leading contributors as "consistently radical".
Unlike The Times Literary Supplement (TLS), the majority of the articles the LRB publishes (usually fifteen per issue) are long essays. Some articles in each issue are not based on books, while several short articles discuss film or exhibitions. Political and social editorials or essays are frequent.
The LRB is well known for its "lonely hearts" personal adverts. They are an intrinsic part of British homosexual subculture and have spawned two books and a Twitter account.
Mary-Kay Wilmers took over as editor in 1992. Average circulation per issue from 1 January 2009 to 31 December 2009 was 48,555.
In January 2010, The Times reported that the magazine was £27m in debt to Wilmers' family trust, although the trust had "no intention of the lender seeking repayment of the loan in the near future".
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