LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS

APRIL 25. 2025

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’. ..

Colin Kidd: Dangerous Chimera

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

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. ..

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. ..