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.

Alexander Clapp on South-East Asian Cybercrime; Lucy Wooding on the life and death of Thomas More; James Lasdun on Seattle's serial killers; Rosemary Hill on Martin Parr; Alice Spawls on Nicholas Lanier and John-Paul Stonard at the National Gallery. Plus, a diary by Leo Robson and a poem by Patricia Lockwood.