LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS

DECEMBER 12. 2025

Amia Srinivasan: The Impossible Patient

What has returned of late is not the unconscious itself, but the felt need, in some quarters, for the unconscious and. ..

Jacqueline Rose: When the Messiah Comes

Netanyahu is trying to absolve himself of a guilt whose reality he denies. He wants to be declared innocent without. ..

Bee Wilson: Two Pins and a Lollipop

To be a Garland fan is to have the illusion that you can save her from the wounds of the world, even as her voice and. ..

Andrew O’Hagan: Fatal Realism

Lippmann was called the greatest journalist of his age, but his claims as an original thinker rest on his book Public. ..

John Lanchester: King of Cannibal Island

Nvidia shares are the purest bet you can make on the impact of AI. The leading firms are lending money to one another in. ..

James Butler: Short Cuts

Only a terminally blithe technocrat could imagine that Reform will be punished for failing to grasp how the system works. ..

Nick Richardson: Puffing on the Coals

Chemical reactions reflect human dramas, which reflect celestial movements, which reflect the mind of the divine. The. ..

Michael Wood: Spellbound Gloaming

Gaston Bachelard is inviting us to go beyond what we think we know. That is, how to counter boring intuitions with. ..

T. J. Clark: A Kouros at the Met

It is one of the wonders of the world. You round a corner from the Met’s entrance hall and see the sculpture deep in a. ..

Jeremy Harding: Something Shameful

To read The Palestinians nearly half a century later is to recognise that the many defeats the Palestinian population. ..

Helen Pfeifer: Turn around and run

The life of the tenth Ottoman sultan, Suleyman, known in Europe as the Magnificent and in Turkey as the Lawgiver, has. ..

Alice Hunt: Out of Rehab

Above all, Jackson presents James as a ‘king of words’. No king before or since has written so thoughtfully about. ..

Deborah Friedell: Lifted Up

Pepys was a meticulous – some might say compulsive – record-keeper. Into his diary’s pages went social debts (who. ..

Susannah Clapp: Not Quite Music

For Rimsky-Korsakov, the key of A was clear pink; for Scriabin, it was green. Duke Ellington read the flight patterns of. ..