A weekly journal for literature and ideas. We publish book reviews, book extracts, essays and poems by leading writers from around the world. Each week, we also review the latest in fiction, film, opera, theatre, dance, radio and television.

4 days ago · Sargent and the Wertheimers; American sexual history; the essence of Bob Dylan; English cooking; new poems – and much more.

Since 1902, we have been publishing expert reviews and insightful, sometimes provocative essays by the best writers from around the world. We cover everything from The Tempest to the climate crisis; little magazines to Big Tech; The Rite of Spring to the Arab Spring; Dionysus to Diane Arbus. Every year, we review 1500 books – that’s more than the London Review of Books, Literary Review and ...

Nov 8, 2024 · The poetry of mourning; Russian dissidents past and present; Manet at home; Hegel and progress; Thomas Mann’s magic – and much more.

Nov 15, 2024 · Books of the Year; a history of gay men in London; Ali Smith’s new novel; a cellist haunted by her instrument; teaching contemporary literature – and more.

Oct 4, 2024 · Authorship in the golden age of theatre; Richard Powers at sea; Lula vs Bolsonaro; tabloid thrills and spills; Miss Marple approaches 100 – and much more

Nov 29, 2024 · Gaugin uncensored; Angela Merkel’s triumph and tragedy; C. S. Lewis’s Oxford; The Magic Mountain at 100; Mary Beard on Gladiator II – and much more

Dec 13, 2024 · The legend of Marie Antoinette; Italy after Mussolini; a coffee-house scientist; Alan Moore’s ‘other’ London; what Kindle readers want – and much more.

Mar 29, 2024 · The letters of Ray Bradbury; carving up the solar system; Andrew O’Hagan’s state-of-the-nation novel; the limits of consent – and much more

Mar 1, 2024 · Thomas Hardy and women; Yaël Farber’s elegiac Shakespeare; Yiddish writing; Hannah Arendt for today; Canal Fiction revisited – and much more