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John Lanchester

John Lanchester has written for The New Yorker since 1995 and is a contributing editor at the London Review of Books.

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2 picks · 1995–2009

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Heroes And Zeroes
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When central bankers rescued, then ruined, the world.

It's All Over
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Signed Comment about endings. Toward the end of "Northanger Abbey," Jane Austen makes a characteristically sly joke. The book's readers can tell that a…