LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS

APRIL 24. 2026

Jonny Bunning: Invisible Services

Claude Villiaume’s clients appear to have been happy to embrace the notion of arbitrary fortune. For men it turned. ..

Ange Mlinko: Don’t mind me in my coffin

One doesn’t read Gwendoline Riley for plot; each of her books is an assemblage of episodes. She wields dialogue like a. ..

Michael Wood: Lucid Wailing

Julian Barnes’s​ latest book is full of broken rules. In the second chapter we’re invited to look back at his early novel Flaubert’s Parrot , which contained, along with. ..

Thomas Jones: Deskbound Party Bastards

The almost dreamlike movement of the story of The Ipcress File is at times closer to Ishiguro or even Kafka than your. ..

Richard King: Labour in Wales

Since​ 1922, the Labour Party has won in Wales at every general election, and has been the largest party in all of the country’s devolved governments since the National Assembly, now. ..

Gazelle Mba: At Tate Modern

Rather than the manifestos and self-conscious rejection of inherited tradition seen in European art, Nigerian modernism. ..

Peter Phillips: What the Maths Mean

The notion of the Great Composer – the individual genius, whose inimitable music is an expression of a singular mind. ..

Paul Taylor: Diary

Creating software using AI feels like pure metacognition: most of your time is spent worrying about whether you’ve. ..

APRIL 15. 2026

Charles Glass: Diary

Lebanon’s civil war did not end in 1990. It assumed new forms and it isn’t over yet. Like my colleagues, I returned. ..

Francis Gooding: Rocket Science for Monkeys

So far as we know, true symbolic language is unique to the human species. The question of how we alone came to be. ..

Rosemary Hill: Sacred Parallelogram

The careers of Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun and Maria Cosway required constant, delicate calibration to keep the. ..

Pratinav Anil: ‘Indira is India’

Being underestimated​ was Indira Gandhi’s chief political asset. The Congress elders who helped her become India’s. ..

Azadeh Moaveni: In Pam’s Club

Pamela Harriman was drawn to power itself, rather than what power could achieve, and had no developed politics of her. ..

Christian Lorentzen: I sympathise with the child

The interchangeable quality of the fictional elements in Ben Lerner’s novels signals an anxiety about his own artistic. ..