LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS

JUNE 26. 2026

Armando Ledezma: Diary

I wanted to visit La Guajira to learn about the US airstrike on Venezuela but also to see genuine resistance. Under. ..

Blake Morrison: Swimmy Head

Strout’s characters live in sociable communities, mostly small coastal towns, where everyone knows everyone else’s. ..

Tess Little: Grasshoppermindedness

‘I have no journalistic ability, ’ Malachi Whitaker wrote in her memoir, And So Did I , ‘and could not tell a good story to save my life. ’ By this point she had. ..

Owen Hatherley: Raised on Spam

Comparing Diego Rivera’s murals with Viscount Hastings’s work tells you a lot about the failings of British. ..

Christine Okoth: How Things Should Go

Margaret Busby acknowledges the importance of anthologists and editors in championing overlooked or underrepresented. ..

Colin Burrow: Dictionary Men

Guilt and pleasure are often codependent addictions, but for early modern authors the two were inextricable. The pedant. ..

Raymond N. MacKenzie: Platinum Noses

By the last decades​ of the 19th century, Jules Verne was less a writer than a brand – one carefully cultivated by his publisher, Pierre-Jules Hetzel – promising a specific mixture. ..

Susannah Clapp: At Dungeness

Here is​ an antidote to current traps and poisons. People who rescue rather than attack, who move in a physical, not a virtual, world, who don’t morally triage others. Who put themselves. ..

Jeremy Harding: Does he still jog?

For years politicians had taken it for granted that they could profit from the grey economy of French politics. Sarkozy. ..

Muhammad Shehada: ‘I would never release him’

Marwan Barghouti enjoys unparallelled popularity and is often described as Palestine’s Nelson Mandela. Like Mandela, ...

Adéwálé Májà-Pearce: At MOWAA

Nigeria is a complicated recipient of Western largesse: elites welcome it so long as domestic players, for whom it may. ..

Patrick Cockburn: Leap in the Dark

What would happen if these two very different societies were united, when their institutions and attitudes have evolved. ..

Seamus Perry: The poet slams his door

Michael Longley, who was all too familiar with protracted writer’s block, often spoke of precariousness in the sense. ..

Marina Warner: Adored Image

Celia Paul’s writings give every impression of translucency and quivering confession; she is an artist of self-. ..