LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS

APRIL 15. 2026

Sarah Resnick: Enemy Language

Kristóf’s books recognise human passions as dark things that can ensnare anyone. We have social norms, moral codes, ...

Francis FitzGibbon: Short Cuts

It isn’t controversial to expect courts to be politically neutral when deciding cases that have great political impact. ..

Eyal Weizman: All they will find is sand

Most of the Gaza Strip – cities, refugee camps, schools, universities, mosques, the health infrastructure, agriculture. ..

Paul Theroux: Gun Love

Seeing my serious Chinese-made firearm, Haruki Murakami once said to me: ‘You’re the only writer I know who has a. ..

James Lasdun: Reality Instruction

The idea of a road trip organised around trials and hearings at court houses across the US had been in my head for years. ..

Elizabeth Goldring: At the National Gallery

More has probably been written about The Ambassadors than about any other work by Holbein. Is the painting a commentary. ..

Matthew Bevis: Wigging In

Schuyler once told an interviewer that he didn’t write the kind of poetry that attracted critics. ‘It’s too easy. ..

Ian Penman: I’m just a sound

To an extent rivalled only by the Beatles, the Beach Boys have become the tales told about them, the ever expanding. ..

MARCH 20. 2026

Patricia Lockwood: Supersensual Ear

Willa Cather’s reader, like her characters, must keep an ear out for the whisper, an eye out for the sign and a hand. ..

Tom Johnson: Save My Beer

Labour was once an organic part of the peasant household, done in the interest of subsistence. Certainly many people in. ..

Amjad Iraqi: Short Cuts

It’s no surprise that Operation Roaring Lion (Israel’s name for its campaign) and Operation Epic Fury (as the US. ..

Tom Crewe: Men Watching Men

Why did Caillebotte paint so many men? Why did he repeatedly paint the bodies and faces of men, in a variety of settings. ..

Ferdinand Mount: Pavilion of Heaven

His exploits seem to belong, irredeemably, to the world of gaslight and hansom cabs. But no, Raffles survives, and it’. ..

James Butler: Am I perhaps in Italy?

History breeds discomfort. Foucault’s basic question is still of great interest: what is it about sex that makes. ..