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Extraordinary solved cold case. Archeologists just announced that French poet Joachim Du Bellay (who died in 1560 aged 35 and whose poetry French children are still familiar with) has been identified in one of the two coffins discovered during the reconstruction of #NotreDame

Clare Bucknell (Clare Bucknell) on the world of Daniel Defoe go.nybooks.com/3zDbft5

For The New York Review of Books I read a fraction of the millions and millions of words Daniel Defoe wrote nybooks.com/articles/2024/…

our podcast for London Review of Books, On Satire, is somehow #6 in the Apple UK arts podcasts chart today!!! thank you to everyone who has listened!! (Grace Dent we're coming for you)

for London Review of Books, I wrote about Peggy Guggenheim, Rebecca Godfrey, and dreadful bohemian men lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

‘Bohemia is fun until it isn’t. The parties become wildly expensive, lawless and full of strangers.’ Clare Bucknell on Rebecca Godfrey’s fictionalisation of the life of Peggy Guggenheim: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

The London Review of Books is 45 years old today. It is a very good thing, which makes the world a better and more interesting place to live in, and I'm very proud to write for it.

Rather extraordinary news: Sylvia Townsend Warner is going to have a statue in Dorchester. On a bench, with a cat. Permission has been granted, but the campaign needs support. Here's its charming little film (complete with an animated cigarette): youtu.be/JjMW5-gKVBI

lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v37/… Frank Auerbach, 1931-2024

for London Review of Books I went to the Rijksmuseum and conducted further research at the Amsterdam Sexmuseum lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

On the Earl of Rochester's wrecking-ball poetry, for the London Review of Books's Christmas issue: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

With Thomas Jones, I’ll be hosting a new Close Readings podcast for the London Review of Books this year, Novel Approaches. Each month, joined by a brilliant roster of guests, we’ll sink our teeth into a 19th-century novel. We hope you’ll join us! Here’s an intro episode: lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-v…

On this day, 19th January, in 1915 the first Zeppelin raids took place on England. This stained glass window by Ward and Hughes at Swaffham Prior in Cambridgeshire was installed in 1919.

On the pod: an extended extract from ‘Novel Approaches’, an LRB Close Readings series. Clare Bucknell, Freya Johnston and Thomas Keymer discuss Thomas Love Peacock’s ‘Crotchet Castle’, and its commentary on the economic and political turmoil of its time: lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-v…

my first essay for Granta is in the new Winter issue, free to read for the next couple of days: on real tennis, the niche sport that changed my life granta.com/real-tennis/

for the new The New York Review of Books I wrote about Sir John Soane and his museum — inc. how you get a full-size sarcophagus into a London basement nybooks.com/articles/2025/…

Some of the Penguin Shakespeare covers illustrated by David Gentleman, born March 11 1930