London Review of Books

The London Review of Books is Europe’s leading magazine of culture and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of the world’s best writers to explore a wide variety of subjects in exhilarating detail – from art and politics to science and technology via history and philosophy, not to mention fiction and poetry. In the age of the long read, the LRB remains the pre-eminent exponent of the intellectual essay, admired around the world for its fearlessness, its range and its elegance.

London Review of Books

Contributors

Flash and Thunder

Letters

At the British Museum

Never Known Heaven

Winging It

Globaloney

Short Cuts

‘Need a lord on the board?’ • James Butler on the fall of Peter Mandelson

The Grandson of Estela

A Way to Be a Person

At the National Gallery

Do lobotomies have a smell?

From ‘Daybook’

Little and Large

We need a better plan

Phoenix

Kin-Slaying

Diary