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.

Adam Shatz on visions of America; Rosemary Hill on Jessica Mitford; Donald MacKenzie on AI's scale; Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi on Iran's grand strategy; Anna Della Subin on El Cid; Neal Spencer at the Grand Egyptian Museum and Thomas Jones on the lives of the Caesars. Plus, a diary by Alexander Clapp and a poem by Rae Armantrout.