LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS

MAY 9. 2025

Rosa Lyster: At Crufts

Here, in an arena where the Sugababes recently performed, is a crowd bursting into applause as a spaniel steadfastly. ..

Stefan Collini: Agent of Influence

Christopher Hill devoted his attention almost exclusively to 17th-century England; he wrote far more about intellectual. ..

Rosemary Hill: At the Miho Museum

A visit to the Miho Museum has none of the razzmatazz of the Met or the Louvre. There are no queues or crowds. From the. ..

Ysenda Maxtone Graham: Music Hall Lady Detectives

Crippen may be the name forever associated with the ‘North London cellar murder’, but in Hallie Rubenhold’s book. ..

Stephanie Burt: On Forrest Gander

Forrest Gander’s​ first collection of poems appeared in 1988. He grew up in Virginia and his early work seemed like. ..

Jérôme Tubiana: Diary

In 2019, I made several visits to Dhar al-Jebel, a Libyan detention centre better known as Zintan, after the nearest. ..

APRIL 25. 2025

T. J. Clark: Too Soon to Know: The Spectacle in Practice

So you thought the spectacle was just smoke and mirrors? Is that why you’re shocked? You didn’t think I would do anything? How can I have allowed something as boring as a tariff war. ..

Andrew O’Hagan: Diary

I had come along in the course of my duties as a hopeless necromantic. I don’t think I have ever believed that pop. ..

Michael Wood: At the Movies

‘Classic’ may not be quite the right word for this scary, messy film – it’s about forms of rage that don’t add. ..

Sarah Resnick: It’s in the eyes

The difficulty of being in contact with ‘the truth about yourself’ is a theme that runs through Ørstavik’s work. ...

Hannah Rose Woods: Tactile Dreams

The British aversion to touching wasn’t limited to the Victorian era: comparative studies confirm that we continue to. ..

Robert Cioffi: In Gold and Lapis Lazuli

The pyramids are so central to the modern view of Egypt, and to Egyptian tourism, that it is hard not to speak about. ..

James Butler: Short Cuts

Francis’s continual emphasis on mercy – ‘the first attribute of God’ – explains his papal choices more clearly. ..

Tom Shippey: Unfortunate Ecgfrith

The West Saxons may have promoted their version of the national story more successfully than the Mercians, but it is. ..