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

Letters

Stay Classy

Butter wouldn’t melt

Capital Brandy

Apocalypse Forgotten

Actual Outer Margins

Heart, Head, Life, Fate

Short Cuts

Bleeding in the Dishes

At the Movies

My Mother’s Prison

At the Wellcome Collection

Soup at La Marmite

Iran, Week One

‘We used to have fun’

That Damn Smooth Stuff

Atheist with a Wooden Leg

At the Norton

Diary