LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS

MARCH 20. 2026

Liam Shaw: Bring me bimagrumab

As biochemical methods became more precise, the eventual identification of the magical substance, insulin, was. ..

Tony Wood: At MoMA

Lam referred to a ‘desire to include in my painting all the transculturation that had occurred in Cuba’ – using a. ..

Vadim Nikitin: Among the Private Spies

Why was Steele’s dossier, alleging collusion between Trump and Putin, so shoddy, and why, despite this, did it command. ..

Andrew Cockburn: Beware the mattress

Mossad relied heavily on assorted European security agencies for intelligence on Palestinian activities. Not only did. ..

Leo Robson: Toxic Inner Critic

Nicola Barker’s explorations have taken her to 19th-century India and a post-metaphysical future. Yet British banality. ..

Aziz Huq: Wrong Sort of Citizen

The Trump administration has introduced two new policies that aim to turn citizens into migrants who can be expelled. ...

Dinah Birch: Born with a Hitler moustache

Carson’s dissection of the question that has disturbed the European mind for decades – how did it happen? – has. ..

Katie Ebner-Landy: Gender Wonder

Was there such a thing as a female style in early modern England? For several authors, valorising originality meant. ..

Susannah Clapp: On Soaps

Not exactly​ an addiction but a compulsion. When I started to write full-time about the theatre, I was fixated on television soaps. Not all of them. I didn’t have an afternoon habit. Just. ..

Vincent Bevins: Diary

On​ 1 November 2024, the canopy of a recently renovated train station in Novi Sad collapsed, killing sixteen people. ...

MARCH 6. 2026

Andrew O’Hagan: Stay Classy

With some people, money and sex are the only truths. It’s the ultimate delinquency to believe that gratification. ..

Nicholas Spice: Butter wouldn’t melt

Schubert’s​ imagination was unusually literary. Words released music in him: poems about desire, love, loss, ...

Stefan Collini: Capital Brandy

For much of the second half of his life, T. S. Eliot was a man on the run, retreating to actual or symbolic boltholes, ...

Sheila Fitzpatrick: Apocalypse Forgotten

The Soviet Union had brought up its citizens as believers in scientific atheism, scornful of the tradition-based ‘. ..