Reviews

London Review of Books

Long essays on new books, twice a month

2026

69 reviews in 2026 · page 1 of 3

How England Began

Nicholas J. Higham

8 Oct 2026Pablo SchefferOriginal
Gandhi

Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee

8 Oct 2026Raghu KarnadOriginal
Leonardo da Vinci

Stephen J. Campbell

8 Oct 2026Charles HopeOriginal
The People’s Emperor

Edward Shawcross

8 Oct 2026David ToddOriginal
The Leopard in the Garden

Richard W. Burkhardt

8 Oct 2026Malcolm GaskillOriginal
Box Office Poison

Tim Robey

8 Oct 2026Malin HayOriginal
After Words

Steve Clay and M. C. Kinniburgh

8 Oct 2026Gill PartingtonOriginal
Black Bag

Luke Kennard

8 Oct 2026Blake MorrisonOriginal
The Wonderful World That Almost Was

Andrew Durbin

8 Oct 2026Em HoganOriginal
Alexander Pope

Henry Power

8 Oct 2026Freya JohnstonOriginal
Tremor of Intent

Anthony Burgess

8 Oct 2026Ian PenmanOriginal
William Golding

William Golding and Tim Kendall

8 Oct 2026Edmund GordonOriginal
If Russia Wins

Carlo Masala

8 Oct 2026Tom StevensonAlso: Atlantic Resolve Original
Always Under Siege

Irina Paperno

8 Oct 2026Sheila FitzpatrickOriginal
Paris Undercover

Matthew Goodman

24 Sept 2026Daniel LeeOriginal
Microphone

Ralph Jones

24 Sept 2026David TrotterOriginal
Schoenberg

Harvey Sachs

24 Sept 2026Laura TunbridgeAlso: Sonic Circulations Original
The Disappearers

Marlon James

24 Sept 2026Adam Mars-JonesOriginal
Happy All the Time

Laurie Colwin

24 Sept 2026Kasia BoddyAlso: Family Happiness Also: A Big Storm Knocked It Over Also: Shine on, Bright and Dangerous Object Original
Anita Brookner

Hermione Lee

24 Sept 2026Andrew O’HaganOriginal
Voltaire’s Workshop

Edward M. Langille

24 Sept 2026Thomas KeymerOriginal
Think of England

Paul Kléber Monod

24 Sept 2026Ferdinand MountAlso: The Shortest History of Migration Also: Nation of Strangers Original
Polis

John Ma

24 Sept 2026Rosalind ThomasOriginal
Twilight of the Dons

Colin Kidd

24 Sept 2026Susan PedersenOriginal
The West

Georgios Varouxakis

24 Sept 2026Thomas MeaneyOriginal
Fallout

Joel S. Wit

24 Sept 2026Richard Lloyd ParryOriginal
Life of M

Rachel Cusk

10 Sept 2026Emily WittOriginal
Archbishop, Chancellor, Kingmaker

Chris Given-wilson

10 Sept 2026Lucy WoodingOriginal
Briggs’s Dictionary of Fairies

Katharine Mary Briggs

10 Sept 2026Nick RichardsonAlso: Fairies Original
The Twitnam Summer

Hester Grant

10 Sept 2026Katie Ebner-LandyOriginal