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London Review of Books

Vol. 48 No. 16 - 10 September 2026
Magazine

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

Good Weird or Bad Weird

Letters

To the Dacha

How to Choose Your Friends

On Rosalía

‘What kind of people do they think we are?’ • James Meek on social housing

Short Cuts

All Kinds of Not Much

I just wanted to touch it

Fir, Fallen

Boozing and Lounging

Cursed Race

Cradle Scissors

At the Barbican

Made to Eat Wax

At the Movies

Munir’s Victory • Owen Bennett-Jones on Pakistan

Proust is in the room

Diary

GRANTA GOES TO THE U.S.A.

Formats

  • OverDrive Magazine

Languages

  • English