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London Review of Books

Vol. 47 No 16. - 11 September 2025
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

Letters

Beaverosity

Short Cuts

Pretty Garrotte

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Things go kerflooey

Fore/mother

Do you feel like a failure?

At the British Museum

The Mask Is Off • Tom Stevenson in El Salvador

Dance in the Rain

Greased with Complaints

Goodbye to Grangemouth

Priest of the Devil

Perpetual Sunshine

At the Movies

Alien to the Community

Burning Age of Rage

Diary

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Languages

  • English