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

Contributors

Trivial Pursuits

Letters

Short Cuts

Squadrons of Pigs • Stefan Collini on the university system

The Full Stature

Slavdom

Dangerously Scary

‘Gavin, Gavin, we love you!’

You can’t satisfy everyone

Capture the Flag

Gold Rush

Close Readings • Jane Austen’s Emma and the art of misreading

Certain Kinds of Carpet

At MoMA

AK-47 and Guitar

Buffalo Bones

All I need is love

When Horses Snigger

Let me count the geese

Againstness

At the King’s Gallery

Diary

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