LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS

MARCH 20. 2026

Susannah Clapp: On Soaps

Not exactly​ an addiction but a compulsion. When I started to write full-time about the theatre, I was fixated on television soaps. Not all of them. I didn’t have an afternoon habit. Just. ..

Vincent Bevins: Diary

On​ 1 November 2024, the canopy of a recently renovated train station in Novi Sad collapsed, killing sixteen people. ...

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Andrew O’Hagan: Stay Classy

With some people, money and sex are the only truths. It’s the ultimate delinquency to believe that gratification. ..

Nicholas Spice: Butter wouldn’t melt

Schubert’s​ imagination was unusually literary. Words released music in him: poems about desire, love, loss, ...

Stefan Collini: Capital Brandy

For much of the second half of his life, T. S. Eliot was a man on the run, retreating to actual or symbolic boltholes, ...

Sheila Fitzpatrick: Apocalypse Forgotten

The Soviet Union had brought up its citizens as believers in scientific atheism, scornful of the tradition-based ‘. ..

Ian Patterson: Actual Outer Margins

Once at a gate with cherries. Know this quickly buried nowor less to file history brief stuffed full of pen force, the timeit takes to various accounts echoing in my library to ensurepassage broke. ..

Steven Shapin: Heart, Head, Life, Fate

The hand is an organ through which we know about the world, and in its expressive mode it helps others know something. ..

William Davies: Short Cuts

Despite the misinformation and alienation that have led so many citizens to regard democracy in general with despair or. ..

Joanna Biggs: Bleeding in the Dishes

Solvej Balle’s serial novel takes the idea of repetition and uses it to make these ancient, impossible problems of. ..

Daniella Shreir: My Mother’s Prison

Although she often responded to questions with anecdotes and talked about the role of chance and the necessity of. ..

Christina Faraday: At the Wellcome Collection

Around​ the year 1500, in Eisenach, Thuringia, a woman gave birth to a mouse. According to rumour, this ‘beautiful and virtuous’ woman had, during her pregnancy, encountered a. ..

Neal Ascherson: Soup at La Marmite

Solidarity with Commune veterans on the part of British working-class movements was usually more symbolic than active. ...

Tom Stevenson: Iran, Week One

It is tempting to frame the attack of 28 February as a spectacular aberration, an act of criminal aggression that could. ..