LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS

JUNE 26. 2026

Dani Garavelli: Short Cuts

Peter Murrell squandered the SNP’s reputation on £42,660 worth of Amazon packages and a necklace from a Shetland. ..

Alice Hunt: Honourable Chains

Despite not securing the succession, despite being Catholic, Catherine, queen of Great Britain from 1662 until Charles. ..

Colin Kidd: Realm of Coyness

Political uncertainty and the problem of communicating at a distance, especially between Jacobites in Britain and the. ..

William Davies: Burnham’s Political Economy

Whatever rash remarks he may have made about the bond markets or spending commitments, Andy Burnham understands. ..

JUNE 12. 2026

Steven Shapin: Barrel of Greenbacks

The Manhattan Project, which built the atomic bomb, transmuted pure theory into mass slaughter, and it changed. ..

Adam Thirlwell: Luxury Muzhik

Gorky was the designated mourner for a vanished moment in Russian culture. He wanted socialism or democracy but he no. ..

J. S. Tennant: Short Cuts

In all the years I’ve been going to Cuba, I have never seen such quantities of food and goods on sale as when I. ..

Daisy Hay: Glitter and Dazzle

Dror Wahrman argues that ‘it is hard to overestimate – though easy to forget – the cultural significance of the. ..

Simon Skinner: ‘I wouldn’t pay it either’

This World Cup, unlike Russia 2018, is hosted by democratic nations, and unlike Qatar 2022 the walkways to its stadiums. ..

Ruby Hamilton: At the Movies

Screwballs aren’t miserabilist-humanist comedies about learning to revel in imperfection; they’re comedies of. ..

Zain Samir: War on the Shia

In the 1960s, Lebanese society was divided between those who saw armed resistance against Israel as a national duty and. ..

Hester van Hensbergen: Big Ag

In​ 2018, the German company Bayer bought the US agrochemical giant Monsanto, inheriting not just its vast portfolio of seeds and pesticides, but also thousands of lawsuits alleging that. ..

David Todd: The Vile and the Louche

The Marquis de Morès was an extraordinary villain in an epoch crowded with the vile and the louche. After he killed a. ..

Christopher Kelly: Unpleasant Medicine

The​ surviving works of St Augustine run to more than five million words. To give some sense of scale, that’s roughly 10 per cent of all the Latin literature extant from before 600 AD, ...