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London Review of Books

Vol. 48 No. 12 - 9 July 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

Burnham’s Political Economy • William Davies on Labour and the cost-of-living crisis

Letters

Auguries

Realm of Coyness

Honourable Chains

Short Cuts

Adored Image

The poet slams his door

Leap in the Dark

At MOWAA

‘I would never release him’ • Muhammad Shehada on Marwan Barghouti and Palestine’s future

Does he still jog?

At Dungeness

Platinum Noses

Dictionary Men

How Things Should Go

Raised on Spam

A new series of titles • published by Profile Books in partnership with the LRB

Grasshoppermindedness

Read the World with GRANTA

Swimmy Head

Diary

Formats

  • OverDrive Magazine

Languages

  • English