London Review of Books

London Review of Books is a publication that features reviews and topical articles on politics, literature, and more.

London Review of Books is a literary publication that features essay-length reviews and topical articles on politics, literature, history, philosophy, science, and the arts. Each issue contains up to 15 long reviews and essays by academics, writers and journalists. There are also shorter art and film reviews, as well as poems and a lively letters page. A typical issue moves through political commentary to science or ancient history by way of literary criticism and social anthropology. For example, an issue can open with a piece on the rhetoric of war, move on to reassessing the reputation of Pythagoras, follow that with articles on the situation in Iraq, the 19th-century super-rich, Nabokov’s unpublished novel, how saints got to be saints, the life and work of William Empson, and an assessment of the poetry of Alice Oswald. London Review of Books was founded in 1979 and is based in London, United Kingdom.