LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS

FEBRUARY 6. 2026

John Gallagher: Quickly Quickly Quickly

In early modern Europe, couriers represented the increased connectivity of the Continent. They travelled faster and. ..

Kate Heard: Expertest Artificers

Art in Tudor England was more than just decoration. Occupants of a precarious throne, passed down through a series of. ..

Jameel Jaffer: Thought Control

Ideological exclusion at the border seems anachronistic now, when all human knowledge is accessible online, video-. ..

James Meek: Far-Right Wellness Product

Călin Georgescu’s entire political programme, in so far as he has one, is based on the need to heal Romania by. ..

Colin Burrow: Stink of Gin

What do we mean​ when we call someone a ‘character’? It’s often a way of indicating that a person habitually. ..

Gaby Wood: At the Movies

Like Walter Salles’s I’m Still Here, which had a similarly successful run last year, The Secret Agent is set during. ..

Chris Power: That’s a body

Despite her novel’s conventional set-up, Rivera Garza isn’t interested in fulfilling the murder mystery contract. ...

Claire Hall: Maths is second best

Rather than relaying complex geometrical relationships from his mind’s eye onto the page, Archimedes had been. ..

Brian Dillon: At the Photographers’ Gallery

Boris Mikhailov’s work as a photographer had been seditious from the outset. In 1965 he was working as an engineer in. ..

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Adam Shatz: Another Country

America is a ‘battlefield’, Simone de Beauvoir wrote, ‘and you can only become passionate about the battle it is. ..

Christopher Harding: Short Cuts

Assuming she remains prime minister after this month’s election, Takaichi Sanae will focus on the immediate economic. ..

Jonathan Rée: We are all layabouts now

Alexandre Kojève described his book on Hegel as ‘very bad’, and he had a point. His take on the Phenomenology of. ..

Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi: Made in Tehran

Years of austerity alongside the rise of an increasingly kleptocratic and predatory elite have steadily eroded the state. ..

Daisy Hay: No King

Edmund Burke and Charles Fox’s relationship could not withstand the ideological chasm that emerged between them after. ..