LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS

JULY 31. 2026

Chloe Diski: Diary

If the psychoanalytic encounter is a meeting of two internal worlds, why does the material world matter? Do patients. ..

Ed Pulford: Beyond the 38th Parallel

The man in whose image North Korea was made was formed in very particular circumstances. Over a life corresponding. ..

Chris Power: Egg in an Eggcup

In Francis Spufford’s Nonesuch it isn’t only the author but his characters who can change history. Iris and Geoff. ..

Anahid Nersessian: Little Ayatollahs

Catherine Breillat is an intellectual filmmaker. Her films pose ethical questions about desire and aesthetic questions. ..

Dennis Duncan: At Charleston

‘Our press you know, is to give birth to every monster in the vicinity, ’ Virginia Woolf told Clive Bell. Hogarth’s. ..

Gaby Wood: Translucency

I don’t​ remember when I first learned to make cyanotypes, but I had loved Anna Atkins’s prints for many years. ..

Peter Howarth: Types and Typology

In February​ 1840, Alfred Tennyson was in a bad way, argumentative and restless. Thomas Carlyle, whose own public. ..

William Davies: Young People Are Different

Those who look for the cause of today’s resurgence of Neets in a more recent global shock, the Covid pandemic, need to. ..

James Wood: Show Us the Father

‘Father’s sister will be visiting, ’ our mother said, ‘you won’t meet her, so there’s absolutely no reason. ..

Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite: An ’ell of an ’eadache

Between 4 and 12 May 1926, nearly three million workers – 20 per cent of the adult population – downed tools, and. ..

Alan Hollinghurst: It’s queer how I’m lonely

Quite naturally, as with any truly original writer, one had to learn how to read Firbank. A certain clue-seeking and. ..

Erin Maglaque: Green into Gold

One​ morning in October 1552, Felix Platter left his hometown of Basel for Montpellier, where he was to study medicine. ..

Michael Kulikowski: Polar Bears in Rome

Over the past two generations, the boundaries of the classical world have been stretched to the steppe frontier of China. ..

T. J. Clark: Night Visitors

The world exceeds us. It comes to us out of darkness. The cave is the universe, the nightly presence of that unknown. ..