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London Review of Books (LRB) · Arts & Culture

London Review of Books (LRB)

Subscribe to the LRB from just £1 per issue: https://lrb.me/youtube The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books 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 culture and politics to science and technology via history and philosophy. 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. As well as essays and book reviews each issue also contains poems, an exhibition review, ‘short cuts’, letters and a diary, and is available in print, online, and offline via our app. Subscribers enjoy unlimited access to almost 15,000 articles in our digital archive. Our website features a regular blog and a channel of audio and video content, including podcasts, author interviews and highlights from the events programme at the London Review Bookshop.

Episodes

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The philosophy of Virginia Woolf's 'To the Lighthouse'

08 Apr 2026
43m
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The politics of oil have fundamentally changed

03 Apr 2026
1h 13m
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Why you can't change someone's mind

25 Mar 2026
1h 10m
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Keir Starmer's Mess

12 Mar 2026
1h 10m
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The Rearmament Consensus

25 Feb 2026
1h 5m
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Seamus Perry: Pluralism and the Modern Poet

13 Feb 2026
1h 16m
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Mandelson and the Private Life of Power

11 Feb 2026
1h 5m
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Nature in Crisis: ‘Silent Spring’ by Rachel Carson

30 Jan 2026
10m
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Adam Shatz: Another Country

26 Jan 2026
1h 18m
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Narrative Poems: 'Hero and Leander' by Christopher Marlowe

20 Jan 2026
16m
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Adam Tooze: Electrostates, Petrostates and the New Cold War

16 Jan 2026AI processed

Adam Tooze's lecture explores the perplexing dynamics of the global energy transition, questioning whether it represents a common journey or a new Cold War divide. He contrasts the electrostate (exemplified by China's rapid electrification and greening) with the petrostate (the United States, grappling with fossil fuel...

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Novel Approaches: ‘New Grub Street’ by George Gissing

29 Dec 2025
16m
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Novel Approaches: 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens

24 Dec 2025
33m
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Amia Srinivasan: The Impossible Patient

17 Dec 2025
1h 1m
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Charles Dickens: A Short History with Tom Crewe

12 Dec 2025
4m
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The Plot of ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’

05 Dec 2025
10m
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Why is the BBC in crisis, again? With Lewis Goodall, Dan Hind and James Butler

28 Nov 2025
21m
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Love and Death: Elegies for Poets by Auden, Arnold and Schuyler

06 Nov 2025
14m
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Novel Approaches: ‘Kidnapped’ by Robert Louis Stevenson

03 Nov 2025
16m
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Should the Bank of England be independent? Andy Haldane and Daniela Gabor

30 Oct 2025
18m
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