LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS

MARCH 6. 2026

Andy Beckett: ‘We used to have fun’

Brown’s premiership was left as a bit of a mystery: an example of formidable talent, experience and hard work somehow. ..

Jefferson Cowie: That Damn Smooth Stuff

Huey​ Long – Louisiana’s legendary governor, senator and would-be presidential candidate – loved the campaign trail. ‘Watch me vaudeville ’em, ’ he would say, ...

Edmund Gordon: Atheist with a Wooden Leg

In all of Flannery O’Connor’s work, there isn’t a single character you could describe as admirable, or even. ..

Michael Hofmann: At the Norton

What is it with these Dutchmen? Did human subjects not exist before them? Did they write the book on patience? (All. ..

Susan Pedersen: Diary

You might think, given the subject, that the male hosts I think of as the podcast bros would have invited on a woman or. ..

FEBRUARY 20. 2026

Michael Dobson: Flash and Thunder

As Stephen Greenblatt’s Dark Renaissance shows despite itself, it is not Marlowe’s life story that we still need, ...

Susannah Clapp: At the British Museum

Traditional fabrics bring unifying stories. The most distinctive Hawaiian material, kapa or barkcloth, was wonderfully. ..

Erin Maglaque: Never Known Heaven

Clothing, for Caravaggio, worked in the same way as his chiaroscuro, dramatising disclosure and reticence, attraction. ..

Clare Jackson: Winging It

Intelligence – whether rumour, gossip, hearsay or clandestine leaks – was central to ambassadorial activity. Henry. ..

Jackson Lears: Globaloney

As a Polish émigré and fervent Polish nationalist, Zbigniew Brzezinski focused most of his fear on the Soviet Union. A. ..

Deborah Friedell: Short Cuts

The enduring liberal fantasy that Melania Trump is unwilling, trapped, in need of rescue, #FreeMelania, has never. ..

James Butler: ‘Need a lord on the board? ’

Why​ did a man whose political expertise was acquired in the departed era of broadcast television maintain such. ..

Rachel Nolan: The Grandson of Estela

Week​ after week, year after year, members of the collective formed in 1977, during the Argentine military. ..

Paul Taylor: A Way to Be a Person

Overdiagnosis isn’t only a problem in screening; it is a possibility wherever a diagnosis brings harms as well as. ..