LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS

APRIL 24. 2026

Peter Phillips: What the Maths Mean

The notion of the Great Composer – the individual genius, whose inimitable music is an expression of a singular mind. ..

Paul Taylor: Diary

Creating software using AI feels like pure metacognition: most of your time is spent worrying about whether you’ve. ..

APRIL 15. 2026

Charles Glass: Diary

Lebanon’s civil war did not end in 1990. It assumed new forms and it isn’t over yet. Like my colleagues, I returned. ..

Francis Gooding: Rocket Science for Monkeys

So far as we know, true symbolic language is unique to the human species. The question of how we alone came to be. ..

Rosemary Hill: Sacred Parallelogram

The careers of Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun and Maria Cosway required constant, delicate calibration to keep the. ..

Pratinav Anil: ‘Indira is India’

Being underestimated​ was Indira Gandhi’s chief political asset. The Congress elders who helped her become India’s. ..

Azadeh Moaveni: In Pam’s Club

Pamela Harriman was drawn to power itself, rather than what power could achieve, and had no developed politics of her. ..

Christian Lorentzen: I sympathise with the child

The interchangeable quality of the fictional elements in Ben Lerner’s novels signals an anxiety about his own artistic. ..

Sarah Resnick: Enemy Language

Kristóf’s books recognise human passions as dark things that can ensnare anyone. We have social norms, moral codes, ...

Francis FitzGibbon: Short Cuts

It isn’t controversial to expect courts to be politically neutral when deciding cases that have great political impact. ..

Eyal Weizman: All they will find is sand

Most of the Gaza Strip – cities, refugee camps, schools, universities, mosques, the health infrastructure, agriculture. ..

Paul Theroux: Gun Love

Seeing my serious Chinese-made firearm, Haruki Murakami once said to me: ‘You’re the only writer I know who has a. ..

James Lasdun: Reality Instruction

The idea of a road trip organised around trials and hearings at court houses across the US had been in my head for years. ..

Elizabeth Goldring: At the National Gallery

More has probably been written about The Ambassadors than about any other work by Holbein. Is the painting a commentary. ..