LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS

APRIL 25. 2025

Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite: It’s a shitshow

Tim Lankester, Thatcher’s private secretary for economic affairs for the first two and a half years of her tenure, ...

Stephen Sedley: Not Terminal

Why should a terminal diagnosis matter? It matters because Kim Leadbeater’s bill currently before Parliament will. ..

Lucie Elven: Wouldn’t you like to be normal?

There were her nicknames: Nini with the nits at home as a child, Miss Educated in Seacliff psychiatric hospital, Waldo. ..

Jack Shenker: Renters v. Rentiers

Housing injustice, unlike most of the social ills afflicting our atomised society, has the potential to unite and. ..

Emily LaBarge: At the Barbican

Noah Davis’s work is distinguished by a revelry and a commitment to the figures he brings into his image world. There. ..

Michael Ledger-Lomas: Hairy Teutons

William Morris wrote with appalling fluency. Composing verse on trains or while sat at the loom, he could turn out a. ..

Julian Barnes: Red Pants on Sundays

You did not need to have met Albert Barnes for him to take against you. In late 1927 Ford Madox Ford, then in New York, ...

Alan Hollinghurst: West End Vice

The queer topography of London emerges in these books like a heat map, flaring in patches round the edges at Shepherd’. ..

Anne Enright: I stab and stab

The diaries filled me with nostalgia for all the bollocks we had to listen to back in the day; the interminable wrangle. ..

Colin Kidd: Dangerous Chimera

Whereas Isaiah Berlin saw no necessary connection between liberty and democracy, Quentin Skinner argues that. ..