LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS

MARCH 6. 2026

Ian Patterson: Actual Outer Margins

Once at a gate with cherries. Know this quickly buried nowor less to file history brief stuffed full of pen force, the timeit takes to various accounts echoing in my library to ensurepassage broke. ..

Steven Shapin: Heart, Head, Life, Fate

The hand is an organ through which we know about the world, and in its expressive mode it helps others know something. ..

William Davies: Short Cuts

Despite the misinformation and alienation that have led so many citizens to regard democracy in general with despair or. ..

Joanna Biggs: Bleeding in the Dishes

Solvej Balle’s serial novel takes the idea of repetition and uses it to make these ancient, impossible problems of. ..

Daniella Shreir: My Mother’s Prison

Although she often responded to questions with anecdotes and talked about the role of chance and the necessity of. ..

Christina Faraday: At the Wellcome Collection

Around​ the year 1500, in Eisenach, Thuringia, a woman gave birth to a mouse. According to rumour, this ‘beautiful and virtuous’ woman had, during her pregnancy, encountered a. ..

Neal Ascherson: Soup at La Marmite

Solidarity with Commune veterans on the part of British working-class movements was usually more symbolic than active. ...

Tom Stevenson: Iran, Week One

It is tempting to frame the attack of 28 February as a spectacular aberration, an act of criminal aggression that could. ..

Andy Beckett: ‘We used to have fun’

Brown’s premiership was left as a bit of a mystery: an example of formidable talent, experience and hard work somehow. ..

Jefferson Cowie: That Damn Smooth Stuff

Huey​ Long – Louisiana’s legendary governor, senator and would-be presidential candidate – loved the campaign trail. ‘Watch me vaudeville ’em, ’ he would say, ...

Edmund Gordon: Atheist with a Wooden Leg

In all of Flannery O’Connor’s work, there isn’t a single character you could describe as admirable, or even. ..

Michael Hofmann: At the Norton

What is it with these Dutchmen? Did human subjects not exist before them? Did they write the book on patience? (All. ..

Susan Pedersen: Diary

You might think, given the subject, that the male hosts I think of as the podcast bros would have invited on a woman or. ..

FEBRUARY 20. 2026

Michael Dobson: Flash and Thunder

As Stephen Greenblatt’s Dark Renaissance shows despite itself, it is not Marlowe’s life story that we still need, ...