Vol. 45 No. 5 · 2 March 2023

Browse other issues from this year

Cover Artist

Jon McNaught

William Davies

The Reaction Economy

Letters

Nicholas Morris, Brian Vickers, Ben Bollig, Kate Leader, Joanna Cole, Elizabeth Vandiver, Jonathan Callaway, Tudor Wright, David Shengold

Joe Dunthorne

Two Poems

Raymond N. MacKenzie

This Woman, This Man by George Sand, translated by Graham Anderson. Dedalus, 259 pp., £9.99, September 2022, 978 1 912868 81 0
This Was the Man by Louise Colet, translated by Graham Anderson. Dedalus, 416 pp., £11.99, September 2022, 978 1 912868 80 3

James Butler

Labours of Love: The Crisis of Care by Madeleine Bunting. Granta, 325 pp., £9.99, May 2021, 978 1 78278 381 7
The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It? by Emma Dowling. Verso, 248 pp., £9.99, March 2022, 978 1 78663 035 3
Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care and the Planet by Nancy Fraser. Verso, 190 pp., £20, September 2022, 978 1 83976 123 2

Tareq Baconi

Short Cuts: Israel’s Liberal Bubble

Adam Shatz

On Ming Smith

Matthew Bevis

The Complete Works of W.H. Auden. Poems, Vol. I: 1927-39 edited by Edward Mendelson. Princeton, 848 pp., £48, August 2022, 978 0 691 21929 5
The Complete Works of W.H. Auden. Poems, Vol. II: 1940-73 edited by Edward Mendelson. Princeton, 1120 pp., £48, August 2022, 978 0 691 21930 1

Barclay Bram

Against America

Irina Dumitrescu

The Permeable Self: Five Medieval Relationships by Barbara Newman. Pennsylvania, 378 pp., £58, September 2021, 978 0 8122 5334 4

Frances Morgan

At Tate Liverpool: Turner Prize 2022

Clare Bucknell

A Revolution on Canvas: The Rise of Women Artists in Britain and France, 1760-1830 by Paris Spies-Gans. Paul Mellon Centre, 384 pp., £45, June 2022, 978 1 913107 29 1

Michael Wood

At the Movies: ‘Saint Omer’

Abigail Green

The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship across the Modern Mediterranean by Jessica M. Marglin. Princeton, 363 pp., £30, January, 978 0 691 23587 5

Eric Foner

Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War Two at Home and Abroad by Matthew F. Delmont. Viking, 374 pp., £25.69, October 2022, 978 1 9848 8039 0
An Army Afire: How the US Army Confronted its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era by Beth Bailey. North Carolina, 360 pp., £36.95, May, 978 1 4696 7326 4

Peter Howarth

On Tour

Oliver Cussen

Affluence and Freedom: An Environmental History of Political Ideas by Pierre Charbonnier, translated by Andrew Brown. Polity, 327 pp., £19.99, July 2021, 978 1 5095 4372 4

Michael Hofmann

Siblings by Brigitte Reimann, translated by Lucy Jones. Penguin, 133 pp., £12.99, February, 978 0 241 55583 5

Charles Glass

Diary: In Beirut

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