LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS

JANUARY 9. 2026

Anna McGee: At the Palazzo Strozzi

Faced with a parade of flushed Madonnas and anguished Christs, it would be easy to think that Fra Angelico was somehow. ..

Michael Wood: At the Movies

Most of the characters in Marty Supreme believe their lives are a kind of movie, and when a character speaks of ‘. ..

Thomas Meaney: I’d smash you in the face

Anti-communist​ dandy, scourge of Ivy League administrators, magazine chieftain, amanuensis to Joe McCarthy, father-. ..

Colm Tóibín: Yeats, Auden, Eliot: 1939, 1940, 1941

Who​ was English; who was American? If Auden was English, was T. S. Eliot American? Or was it the other way around? ...

Chris Given-Wilson: All the flowers shall bow

Given that the most widely accepted date for the start of the Wars of the Roses is 1455, it is unsurprising that the. ..

Michael Kulikowski: New Man on the Make

Trying to psychoanalyse historical figures is rarely productive, but Cicero was a type we can all recognise. He had a. ..

Tony Wood: On Venezuela

The choice of narco-trafficking as the pretext is partly motivated by a desire to skirt even the feeble murmurs that. ..

Tom Stevenson: Climbing the Ziggurat

China, which in the post-Cold War period was viewed as either lunch for American capital or an irredeemable dungeon, has. ..

DECEMBER 12. 2025

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. ..

Letters

The letters page from London Review of Books Vol. 47 No. 23

Jo Applin: Diary

In September​, a suitcase filled with sculptural odds and ends was discovered beneath a spiral staircase in Louise. ..

Clare Bucknell: At the Museo Byron

What must it have been like to live cheek by jowl with the man you’d cuckolded? In the early 19th century, for a woman. ..

Daniel Soar: Land of Milk and Cheese

The universe has no centre. What Pynchon has mapped is a world that is continuous and connected, where borders, however. ..

Ange Mlinko: Scattered Alphabet

Reading the work​ that Susan Howe has produced over the past half century, one marvels at the consistency and depth of. ..