LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS

DECEMBER 12. 2025

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. ..

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. ..

Nick Richardson: Puffing on the Coals

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

James Butler: Short Cuts

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

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. ..