LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS

DECEMBER 12. 2025

T. J. Clark: A Kouros at the Met

It is one of the wonders of the world. You round a corner from the Met’s entrance hall and see the sculpture deep in a. ..

Michael Wood: Spellbound Gloaming

Gaston Bachelard is inviting us to go beyond what we think we know. That is, how to counter boring intuitions with. ..

Nick Richardson: Puffing on the Coals

Chemical reactions reflect human dramas, which reflect celestial movements, which reflect the mind of the divine. The. ..

James Butler: Short Cuts

Only a terminally blithe technocrat could imagine that Reform will be punished for failing to grasp how the system works. ..

Andrew O’Hagan: Fatal Realism

Lippmann was called the greatest journalist of his age, but his claims as an original thinker rest on his book Public. ..