LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS

JANUARY 9. 2026

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. ..

Rachel Armitage: Diary

Many brass bands were started by factory owners in the belief that music would give their workers purpose, strengthen. ..

Natasha Fedorson: Men are like road signs

‘Who’s afraid of Ludmilla Petrushevskaya? ’ was the title of an essay that appeared in a Russian émigré literary. ..

DECEMBER 12. 2025

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. ..

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. ..

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. ..

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. ..