[pmyteh]

It's (deliberately) a very soft paywall. The LRB offers a certain number of articles for free then hope to attract subscribers, but it's only really a semi-commercial proposition. The whole thing has been subsidised by the editor for decades; my suspicion is that they're much more interested in being read than being paid.

FWIW I'm a subscriber at least in the main because I want it to exist. Most months I don't read more than I'd get for free anyway. But it's gloriously chewy content of a kind that you can't quite find anywhere else.