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

Contributor

Climbing the Ziggurat

Letters

Short Cuts

New Man on the Make

Two Poems

All the flowers shall bow

Yeats, Auden, Eliot: 1939, 1940, 1941

I’d smash you in the face

At the Movies

Calling Dr Jekyll

At the Palazzo Strozzi

It’s. Not. Real.

On Richard Siken

Good Failures

‘I’m not a radical, Dad’

At the Musée Jacquemart-André

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Men are like road signs

Diary

GRANTA GOES TO THERAPY