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London Review of Books

Vol. 48 No. 19. - 22 October 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

What’s the truth? • Geoff Mann on Prediction Markets

Letters

Short Cuts

A Day in the Age of AI

In the Public Closet

On Shelagh Delaney

Eat Me

Fredric Jameson as Reader

At the YCBA

Biblio-voodoo

At the Royal Academy

Eejip-Eejip

Signs in the Heavens

He Seemed a Little Excited

Antidote to Glibness

Under a Cloud

Sick of the Subject

Near a Dying Star

Four Pints of Gelato

Diary

Formats

  • OverDrive Magazine

Languages

  • English