LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS

JULY 10. 2026

Oliver Cussen: Doctor of the Incurable

Beyond the violence and immediacy of his language, perhaps Marat was popular for a more straightforward reason: he gave. ..

Ange Mlinko: On Susan Stewart

In her Clarendon Lectures​, given at Oxford in 2023 and recently published as Poetry’s Nature , Susan Stewart recapitulates themes that have preoccupied her for half. ..

Jonathan Coe: Where was the drum kit?

The music Bernard Herrmann wrote for The Wrong Man is diffident, sometimes almost unnoticeable. His score for Hitchcock. ..

Barbara Newman: Beasts with Ravening Whelps

Self-Help from the Middle Ages raises some provocative questions about historical figures. Was Thomas Aquinas truly a. ..

Peter Geoghegan, Lucas Amin: ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’

A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds. ..

Laleh Khalili: Canton Kitty

Seafaring is a bundle of contradictions. It is highly skilled labour, yet mostly invisible. Lower ratings of seafarers. ..

David Runciman: The Cult of Longevity

We don’t have a politics of what works so much as a politics of what older citizens won’t notice. All human beings. ..

Ray Monk: Einstein’s Miracle Year

‘Why is it that nobody understands me and everybody likes me? ’ Albert Einstein’s question acknowledges the great. ..

JUNE 26. 2026

William Davies: Burnham’s Political Economy

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

Colin Kidd: Realm of Coyness

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

Alice Hunt: Honourable Chains

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

Dani Garavelli: Short Cuts

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

Marina Warner: Adored Image

Celia Paul’s writings give every impression of translucency and quivering confession; she is an artist of self-. ..

Seamus Perry: The poet slams his door

Michael Longley, who was all too familiar with protracted writer’s block, often spoke of precariousness in the sense. ..