LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS

MAY 8. 2026

John Lanchester: Squillions

If it were an industry, money laundering would be the third biggest business in the world, behind commercial property. ..

Tom Stevenson: We were doing well when I left

Many of those who had been involved in the war’s inception saw the chaotic Nato withdrawal in August 2021 as a. ..

Tarn MacArthur: The Clearance of Aoineadh Mòr, 1824

The people of Unnimore thought that ‘flitting’ would not come upon them while they lived. As long as they paid the rent, and that was not difficult to do, anxiety did not come near. ..

Diarmaid MacCulloch: Fighting Monks

‘Westerners’ have told themselves a story of their past dominated by a fluke in human history: the rise of a single. ..

Thomas Nagel: I’m not sorry

Whether the causal order of nature is deterministic or partly random, people do not create themselves. So how can it. ..

Becca Rothfeld: Mourning the Houseplant

Walls of various kinds are present in almost all of Marlen Haushofer’s writing. They are a means of both entrapment. ..

Emily Berry: Summons from a Witch

Lynette Roberts loved obscure words and was not shy about using them. Over the course of two pages, I had to look up ‘. ..

Nicholas Higham: Sword’s Edge

While Æthelstan’s grandfather, Alfred, had revived the practice of issuing law codes, Æthelstan was by far the most. ..

Ben Walker: Samurai Suits

Early samurai were members of a professional warrior class who served under a daimyo; they fought with bow and arrow on. ..

Robert Cioffi: Pharaoh in all but name

The Ptolemies came too late for many histories of Greece and Egypt and too early for Rome. Alexandria, their capital, ...

Youssef Ben Ismail: His Favourite Camel

That slavery persisted in Muslim societies well into the 20th century is undeniable. More questions need to be asked. ..

Tom Johnson: At Senate House

The story​ of the English printing press has no convenient beginning. It makes for inconsistent centennials; a quatercentenary celebration was held in 1877, two quincentenary exhibitions in 1975...

Adam Mars-Jones: Another Ilk

Circumstantial evidence suggests that Vigil. ..

Nicole Flattery: Zip him in a bodybag

In some ways, Amie Barrodale’s first novel, Trip, is a send-up of a culture obsessed with ‘healthmaxxing’, where. ..