London Review of Books

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

Letters

Down the Rabbit Hole

Short Cuts

Unwelcome Remnant • Conor Gearty on the threat to the Human Rights Act

Parable of the Parakeets

Thishereness

In the Shoebox

Computers that want things • James Meek on the search for Artificial General Intelligence

Self-Interpreting Animals

At the Institut du monde arabe

A Different Life Thomas Laqueur

World-Beating Buster-Upper

In the Multiverse

At the Movies

Professor Heathrow

Clearing

I do not have to be you

Reflexive Hostility

Diary