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.

As well as book reviews, memoir and reportage, each issue also contains poems, reviews of exhibitions and movies, ‘short cuts’, letters and a diary.

Ian Penman on Anthony Burgess; Freya Johnston on Alexander Pope; Paul Taylor on AI Agents; Malin Hay on Hollywood's flops; Blake Morrison on Luke Kennard; Gill Partington on poetry in small presses and Pablo Scheffer on the formation of England. Plus, a diary by D.K. Renton and a poem by Robin Robertson.