LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS

MAY 22. 2026

Greg Afinogenov: Slavdom

Unlike 20th-century communism or fascism, contemporary Russian ideology does not have a clearly articulated manifesto or. ..

Malcolm Gaskill: Dangerously Scary

Eighty years on, Dead of Night stands as an astute meditation on repression and madness. Time, however, has dulled the. ..

Rory Scothorne: Capture the Flag

Some Labour MPs​ always had their doubts about the 1998 Scotland Act. According to Tom Harris, former Labour MP for Glasgow South, there was a joke in the Commons tearoom: ‘Line 1, between. ..

Claire Wilmot: Gold Rush

Across Tigray, the remains of razed towns are marked with mounds of earth piled over the dead – impressions of war. ..

Jonathan Parry: Certain Kinds of Carpet

If historians​ are remembered posthumously, it tends to be for their book titles, while the books themselves gather. ..

Hal Foster: At MoMA

In​ 1973, when a Marcel Duchamp retrospective was last staged in the United States, the critic Lucy Lippard declared. ..

Rahmane Idrissa: AK-47 and Guitar

The Sahara is now one of the most inhospitable places on earth, but not because of the desert. It is a dumping ground in. ..

J. Robert Lennon: Buffalo Bones

I came of age as a writer in the 1990s, in Montana, where I moved to attend graduate school, and cut my teeth on the. ..

Jon Day: All I need is love

Klaus Kinski is in some respects the archetypal Myers character: a charismatic, morally compromised figure fully. ..

Ardis Butterfield: When Horses Snigger

The psalms seem deeply familiar, but the not particularly Christian anglophone might struggle actually to provide much. ..

Michael Hofmann: Let me count the geese

The Effingers is a remarkable way of rendering history. That said, stasis, being, durée, existence, longueurs don’t. ..

Lili Owen Rowlands: Againstness

Beneath the whimsy and the wit, Agnès Varda’s films were motivated by contradiction and critique. She said she was. ..

Susannah Clapp: At the King’s Gallery

It is​ a fascinating and fawning exhibition. At the King’s Gallery some three hundred items of. ..

Inigo Thomas: Diary

Working at George, JFK Jr’s magazine, was never dull, despite the contradictions emanating from the editor-in-chief. ..