LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS

FEBRUARY 6. 2026

Chris Power: That’s a body

Despite her novel’s conventional set-up, Rivera Garza isn’t interested in fulfilling the murder mystery contract. ...

Claire Hall: Maths is second best

Rather than relaying complex geometrical relationships from his mind’s eye onto the page, Archimedes had been. ..

Brian Dillon: At the Photographers’ Gallery

Boris Mikhailov’s work as a photographer had been seditious from the outset. In 1965 he was working as an engineer in. ..

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Adam Shatz: Another Country

America is a ‘battlefield’, Simone de Beauvoir wrote, ‘and you can only become passionate about the battle it is. ..

Christopher Harding: Short Cuts

Assuming she remains prime minister after this month’s election, Takaichi Sanae will focus on the immediate economic. ..

Jonathan Rée: We are all layabouts now

Alexandre Kojève described his book on Hegel as ‘very bad’, and he had a point. His take on the Phenomenology of. ..

Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi: Made in Tehran

Years of austerity alongside the rise of an increasingly kleptocratic and predatory elite have steadily eroded the state. ..

Daisy Hay: No King

Edmund Burke and Charles Fox’s relationship could not withstand the ideological chasm that emerged between them after. ..

Thomas Nagel: Now and Then

Our lives don’t just play out over time: we lead them over the course of that time, shaping them as an extended whole. ..

Rosemary Hill: One of the Worst Things

It sometimes feels as if we shall never hear the last of the Mitfords. What Jessica, one of Deborah Devonshire’s older. ..

Neal Spencer: At the Grand Egyptian Museum

The story​ of archaeology in Egypt usually begins with the Napoleonic expedition of 1798-1801 and Jean-François Champollion’s decipherment of hieroglyphs in 1822. That’s the. ..

Hal Foster: Zip it

Newman railed against the machinations of art critics despite being expert at them. There is ‘no such thing as art “. ..

Ange Mlinko: Holding the Skin Girdle

The Danish writer​ Olga Ravn has recently published two short novels, one set in the future and one in the past. Both concern insular societies whose members turn on one another with fatal. ..

Susannah Clapp: On Baya

The artistic gift of Fatima Haddad – who chose to be known as Baya – was quickly celebrated. But celebration was. ..