being a record, week-on-week, of the astounding digressive fragment detail or item which (by virtue -- despite severe variation -- of its reliable presence and its unfathomable content) sets each issu

"He wrote more than twenty books in all, ranging from a social history of tattooing to murder mysteries featuring Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas as amateur detectives in Paris"

kevin brazil in LRB vol.42 no.4, 2 feb 2020

thread question concludes: … sets each issue of the LRB apart from any other publication, similar or elsewise

so i effed this up

there's no going back now the mic is on you're on the record the letters have been published

being a record, week-on-week, of the astounding digressive fragment detail or item which sets each issue of the LRB apart from any other publication, similar or elsewise