London Review of Books, Volume 48, Number 13, 23 July 2026

Iain Sinclair contributes "Bad Magic," a review of the catalogue of the Brion Gysin: Le dernier musée exhibition at the Musée d'Arte Moderne de Paris, 2026.

Published in London, England by London Review of Books in July 2026.

This copy was acquired from Jim Pennington of Aloes Books (London, England).

Selected Contents: 

• Ray Monk: "m = L/V2" (combined review of books on Albert Einstein)
• letters
• Michael Wood: "At the Movies" (essay)
• David Runciman: "The Cult of Longevity" (on Gerontocracy in America by Samuel Moyn)
• Laleh Khalili: "Canton Kitty" (on The Sea Captain's Wife by Tilar J. Mazzeo and Archives of Intimacy by Nadine Attewell)
• Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin: "'This looks absolutely rubbish'" (on Palantir and the NHS)
• Barbara Newman: "Beats with Ravening Whelps" (on Self-Help from the Middle Ages by Peter Jones and The Medieval Guide to Healthy Living by Katharine Harvey)
• Jonathan Coe: "Where was the drum kit?" (on Hitchcock and Herrmann by Steven C. Smith)
• Ange Mlinko: "On Susan Stewart" (essay)
• Oliver Cussen: "Doctor of the Incurable" (on books about Marat)
• Iain Sinclair: "Bad Magic" (on Brion Gysin: Le dernier musée)
• Michael Ledger-Lomas: "Pattern in the Carpet" (on Converts by Melanie McDonagh)
• Kathleen Common: "Short Cuts" (essay)
• Jenny Turner: "Hated and Loved in a Breath" (on History of a Revoluter by William K. Malcolm)
• Edmund Gordon: "Uncanny Little Blighter" (on The End of Everything by M. John Harrison)
• Susan Pedersen: "Worker, Hipster, Banker" (on The Modern British City 1945–2000 edited by Simon Gunn, Peter Mandler, and Otto Saumarez Smith)
• Terry Eagleton: "Starveling Rabblement" (on James Joyce: A Political Life by Frank Callanan)
• Nicola Jennings: "At the National Gallery" (essay/review)
• Neal Ascherson: "Dancing on a Volcano" (on Stay Alive: Berlin 1939–45 by Ian Baruma)
• Anne Carson: "Smile" (poetry)
• Clare Jackson: "Jaguars over the Seine" (on A Golden World by Lauren Working)
• Rebecca Solnit: "Diary" (essay)

Publishing Information: 

• Editors: Jean McNicol, Alice Spawls
• Senior Editors: Thomas Jones, Paul Laity, Paul Myerscough, Daniel Soar
• Cover Artist: Dror Cohen
• Publisher: Renée Doegar
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