LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS

MAY 22. 2026

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. ..

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. ..