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| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 495 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | 7 days ago |
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WRB—May 13, 2026
The Washington Review of Books Is Decadent and Depraved
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- In Van, Leah Mandel on insects in music:
A few years after Hearn wrote of his impossible-to-describe cricket sounds, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakav composed “The Flight of...
WRB—May 6, 2026
“Ozymandian pathos”
Does he re-buckle his knickerbockers below the knee?
WRB—Apr. 29, 2026
The Managing Editor of the Washington Review of Books Orders His Tomb at St. Praxed’s Church
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- In our sister publication on the Hudson, Clare Bucknell reviews a book about pedantry (On Pedantry: A Cultural His...
WRB—Apr. 22, 2026
“tedious and unoriginal”
If his inmost heart could have been laid open, there would have been discovered that dream of managing to edit the Washington Review of Books, which, dream as it is, is more powerful than a thousand realities.
WRB—Apr. 15, 2026
When I’m asked (as I frequently am) what I consider to be the most frightening thing I’ve ever written, the answer I give comes easily and with no hesitation: this issue of the WRB.
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- In Liberties, David A. Bell on the book r...
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