LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS

FEBRUARY 20. 2026

Susannah Clapp: At the British Museum

Traditional fabrics bring unifying stories. The most distinctive Hawaiian material, kapa or barkcloth, was wonderfully. ..

Erin Maglaque: Never Known Heaven

Clothing, for Caravaggio, worked in the same way as his chiaroscuro, dramatising disclosure and reticence, attraction. ..

Clare Jackson: Winging It

Intelligence – whether rumour, gossip, hearsay or clandestine leaks – was central to ambassadorial activity. Henry. ..

Jackson Lears: Globaloney

As a Polish émigré and fervent Polish nationalist, Zbigniew Brzezinski focused most of his fear on the Soviet Union. A. ..

Deborah Friedell: Short Cuts

The enduring liberal fantasy that Melania Trump is unwilling, trapped, in need of rescue, #FreeMelania, has never. ..

James Butler: ‘Need a lord on the board? ’

Why​ did a man whose political expertise was acquired in the departed era of broadcast television maintain such. ..

Rachel Nolan: The Grandson of Estela

Week​ after week, year after year, members of the collective formed in 1977, during the Argentine military. ..

Paul Taylor: A Way to Be a Person

Overdiagnosis isn’t only a problem in screening; it is a possibility wherever a diagnosis brings harms as well as. ..

Clare Bucknell: At the National Gallery

Like darkness, light at its most powerful could disorientate, overpower, blind the senses. Joseph Wright of Derby’s. ..

Adam Mars-Jones: Do lobotomies have a smell?

Adèle Yon says that she enjoys it when the archives lose their footing , revealing their. ..

Maureen N. McLane: From ‘Daybook’

a dead queen a red kingan orange polis crashwhere is the high styleo poet the republic requires& where the Polish heroes& can the heroic be generalcommunal asks the engorgedpopulace we we. ..

David Trotter: Little and Large

Davis has identified the moment at which she understood that it is possible to derive the material of a story ‘almost. ..

Alexander Bevilacqua: We need a better plan

Young Earth creationists insist that the Bible be read literally. In their view, to reject biblical chronology or. ..

Barbara Newman: Kin-Slaying

The origin legend was a widespread medieval genre used to account not only for peoples and nations, but also for the. ..