Its political stance has been described by Alan Bennett, a prominent contributor, as "consistently radical".

[5] Unlike The Times Literary Supplement (TLS), the majority of the articles the LRB publishes (usually fifteen per issue) are long essays.

[8] The London Review Bookshop opened in Bloomsbury in May 2003, and the Cake Shop next door in November 2007.

[9][10] In 2023, Hebrew Writers Association in Israel openly published a protest response to the letter of support for Gaza that was published in the journal, and called writers and artists around the world to support the freeing of the kidnapped.

[11] In January 2024, A Hitch in Time: Reflections Ready for Reconsideration, an anthology of Christopher Hitchens's writings between 1983 and 2002 for The London Review of Books, was published.