LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS

FEBRUARY 20. 2026

Long Ling: Diary

My husband and I agreed to divorce on the Minor New Year, the day that marks the beginning of preparations for the. ..

FEBRUARY 6. 2026

Seamus Perry: Pluralism and the Modern Poet

‘Art arises, ’ Auden writes, ‘out of our desire for both beauty and truth and our knowledge that they are not. ..

James Wolcott: What you can get away with

Betwixt and between is a strange place for any major writer to be more than a decade and a half after their death, and. ..

Mike Jay: Demand Stolen Rings

It’s understandable that the dead should be angry or vengeful: after all, they have suffered a terrible calamity. ...

Tobias Gregory: A Terrier and a Camel

De Doctrina Christiana matters because it mattered to Milton. You can ignore it and still enjoy his poetry, but if you. ..

Jorie Graham: You Shall Not Speak

your mind. Turnaround. Lookthe other way. Is there anotherway. Go ahead. Try to positthe future. It’sjust down there she sd, hesd, the bodies torn topieces sd, the skins like rags, the bloody. ..

Laleh Khalili: Guns, Money and Opium

There is an undeniable symmetry between surges in drug use in the US and the country’s covert operations overseas. The. ..

Jen Stout: Short Cuts

The 9 January attack, which left six thousand Kyiv housing blocks without heating, was far from the first Russian. ..

John Gallagher: Quickly Quickly Quickly

In early modern Europe, couriers represented the increased connectivity of the Continent. They travelled faster and. ..

Kate Heard: Expertest Artificers

Art in Tudor England was more than just decoration. Occupants of a precarious throne, passed down through a series of. ..

Jameel Jaffer: Thought Control

Ideological exclusion at the border seems anachronistic now, when all human knowledge is accessible online, video-. ..

James Meek: Far-Right Wellness Product

Călin Georgescu’s entire political programme, in so far as he has one, is based on the need to heal Romania by. ..

Colin Burrow: Stink of Gin

What do we mean​ when we call someone a ‘character’? It’s often a way of indicating that a person habitually. ..

Gaby Wood: At the Movies

Like Walter Salles’s I’m Still Here, which had a similarly successful run last year, The Secret Agent is set during. ..