LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS

MARCH 20. 2026

Patricia Lockwood: Supersensual Ear

Willa Cather’s reader, like her characters, must keep an ear out for the whisper, an eye out for the sign and a hand. ..

Tom Johnson: Save My Beer

Labour was once an organic part of the peasant household, done in the interest of subsistence. Certainly many people in. ..

Amjad Iraqi: Short Cuts

It’s no surprise that Operation Roaring Lion (Israel’s name for its campaign) and Operation Epic Fury (as the US. ..

Tom Crewe: Men Watching Men

Why did Caillebotte paint so many men? Why did he repeatedly paint the bodies and faces of men, in a variety of settings. ..

Ferdinand Mount: Pavilion of Heaven

His exploits seem to belong, irredeemably, to the world of gaslight and hansom cabs. But no, Raffles survives, and it’. ..

James Butler: Am I perhaps in Italy?

History breeds discomfort. Foucault’s basic question is still of great interest: what is it about sex that makes. ..

Liam Shaw: Bring me bimagrumab

As biochemical methods became more precise, the eventual identification of the magical substance, insulin, was. ..

Tony Wood: At MoMA

Lam referred to a ‘desire to include in my painting all the transculturation that had occurred in Cuba’ – using a. ..

Vadim Nikitin: Among the Private Spies

Why was Steele’s dossier, alleging collusion between Trump and Putin, so shoddy, and why, despite this, did it command. ..

Andrew Cockburn: Beware the mattress

Mossad relied heavily on assorted European security agencies for intelligence on Palestinian activities. Not only did. ..

Leo Robson: Toxic Inner Critic

Nicola Barker’s explorations have taken her to 19th-century India and a post-metaphysical future. Yet British banality. ..

Aziz Huq: Wrong Sort of Citizen

The Trump administration has introduced two new policies that aim to turn citizens into migrants who can be expelled. ...

Dinah Birch: Born with a Hitler moustache

Carson’s dissection of the question that has disturbed the European mind for decades – how did it happen? – has. ..

Katie Ebner-Landy: Gender Wonder

Was there such a thing as a female style in early modern England? For several authors, valorising originality meant. ..