LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS

DECEMBER 12. 2025

John Lanchester: King of Cannibal Island

Nvidia shares are the purest bet you can make on the impact of AI. The leading firms are lending money to one another in. ..

Letters

The letters page from London Review of Books Vol. 47 No. 23

Jo Applin: Diary

In September​, a suitcase filled with sculptural odds and ends was discovered beneath a spiral staircase in Louise. ..

Clare Bucknell: At the Museo Byron

What must it have been like to live cheek by jowl with the man you’d cuckolded? In the early 19th century, for a woman. ..

Jacqueline Rose: When the Messiah Comes

Netanyahu is trying to absolve himself of a guilt whose reality he denies. He wants to be declared innocent without. ..

Bee Wilson: Two Pins and a Lollipop

To be a Garland fan is to have the illusion that you can save her from the wounds of the world, even as her voice and. ..

Daniel Soar: Land of Milk and Cheese

The universe has no centre. What Pynchon has mapped is a world that is continuous and connected, where borders, however. ..

Ange Mlinko: Scattered Alphabet

Reading the work​ that Susan Howe has produced over the past half century, one marvels at the consistency and depth of. ..

Susannah Clapp: Not Quite Music

For Rimsky-Korsakov, the key of A was clear pink; for Scriabin, it was green. Duke Ellington read the flight patterns of. ..

Deborah Friedell: Lifted Up

Pepys was a meticulous – some might say compulsive – record-keeper. Into his diary’s pages went social debts (who. ..

Alice Hunt: Out of Rehab

Above all, Jackson presents James as a ‘king of words’. No king before or since has written so thoughtfully about. ..

Helen Pfeifer: Turn around and run

The life of the tenth Ottoman sultan, Suleyman, known in Europe as the Magnificent and in Turkey as the Lawgiver, has. ..

Amia Srinivasan: The Impossible Patient

What has returned of late is not the unconscious itself, but the felt need, in some quarters, for the unconscious and. ..

Jeremy Harding: Something Shameful

To read The Palestinians nearly half a century later is to recognise that the many defeats the Palestinian population. ..