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London Review of Books

Archived since Vol. 47 No. 1 - 23 January 2025
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9 issues

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.

As well as book reviews, memoir and reportage, each issue also contains poems, reviews of exhibitions and movies, ‘short cuts’, letters and a diary.

Latest Issue:

Ferdinand Mount on free speech, Julian Barnes at the Royal Academy, Rosa Lyster at Crufts, Maureen N. McLane on Walt Whitman’s Specimen Days, James Butler on the UK local elections, Rosemary Hill at the Miho Museum and Colm Tóibín on pressing matters for the pope.

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  • First Issue: Vol. 47 No. 1 - 23 January 2025
  • Latest Issue: Vol. 47 No. 9 - 22 May 2025
  • Issue Count: 9
  • Published: Fortnightly
  • ISSN: 2978-056X