Vol. 46 No. 6 · 21 March 2024

Browse other issues from this year

Cover Artist

Johnny Bunting

Letters

Simon Skinner, Bunny Hambleton-Relf, Barbara Everett, Penny McCarthy, Peter Bisschop, Robert Johnstone, Martin Kitchen, Otto Saumarez-Smith, Vernon Shetley, Robert Poole

Pankaj Mishra

The Shoah after Gaza

Michael Longley

Poem: ‘Boreen’

Tom Johnson

Textual Magic: Charms and Written Amulets in Medieval England by Katherine Storm Hindley. Chicago, 299 pp., £36, August 2023, 978 0 226 82533 5

Rosemary Hill

Architecture in Britain and Ireland: 1530-1830 by Steven Brindle. Paul Mellon, 582 pp., £60, November 2023, 978 1 913107 40 6

John Burnside

Two Poems

Paul Taylor

The Coming Wave: Technology, Power and the 21st Century’s Greatest Dilemma by Mustafa Suleyman with Michael Bhaskar. Bodley Head, 332 pp., £25, September 2023, 978 1 84792 948 8
The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration and Discovery at the Dawn of AI by Fei-Fei Li. Flatiron, 322 pp., £25.99, December 2023, 978 1 250 89793 0

James Butler

Short Cuts: Jeremy Hunt’s Mendacity

Jim Wilson

Shameful

Claire Hall

Galen: Writings on Health translated by P.N. Singer. Cambridge, 510 pp., £120, March 2023, 978 1 009 15951 7

Michael Wood

At the Movies: ‘American Fiction’

Lucie Elven

Hackenfeller’s Ape by Brigid Brophy. Faber, 133 pp., £9.99, October 2023, 978 0 571 38129 6

Jo Applin

At the Serpentine: On Barbara Kruger

Ange Mlinko

Collected Works by Jo Ann Beard. Serpent’s Tail, 439 pp., £17.99, August 2023, 978 1 80081 788 3
Cheri by Jo Ann Beard. Serpent’s Tail, 79 pp., £10, August 2023, 978 1 80081 785 2

Richard Beck

Waco Rising: David Koresh, the FBI and the Birth of America’s Modern Militias by Kevin Cook. Holt, 272 pp., £18.99, January, 978 1 250 84051 6
Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians and a Legacy of Rage by Jeff Guinn. Simon & Schuster, 383 pp., £20, February 2023, 978 1 9821 8610 4

Josie Mitchell

Family Meal by Bryan Washington. Atlantic, 306 pp., £17.99, October 2023, 978 1 83895 444 4

Andrew Cockburn

The Origins of Victory: How Disruptive Military Innovation Determines the Fates of Great Powers by Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr. Yale, 549 pp., £35, May 2023, 978 0 300 23409 1

William Logan

On Anthony Hecht

Stephen Smith

Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage by Jonny Steinberg. William Collins, 550 pp., £25, May 2023, 978 0 00 835378 0

Malcolm Gaskill

Diary: The Bussolengo Letters

Read anywhere with the London Review of Books app, available now from the App Store for Apple devices, Google Play for Android devices and Amazon for your Kindle Fire.

Sign up to our newsletter

For highlights from the latest issue, our archive and the blog, as well as news, events and exclusive promotions.

Newsletter Preferences