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The London Review was founded in 1979 by former editors of the Times Literary Supplement, during the year-long lock-out at The Times. For its first six months, it appeared as an insert in the New York Review of Books. In May 1980, the London Review became an independent publication with a distinctly radical editorial orientation.

Among its contributors have been Edward Said, James Wood (critic), William Empson, Martha Gellhorn, Bruce Chatwin, Christopher Hitchens, Benedict Anderson, Tariq Ali, Frank Kermode , Terry Eagleton, Elaine Showalter , Stephen Greenblatt, Tom Paulin, Eric Hobsbawm, Alan BennettAlan Bennett (born May 9, 1934) is an English writer and actor. Born in Leeds and schooled at Leeds Grammar School, he gained a first-class degree in history from Exeter College, Oxford. In August 1960, Bennett, along with Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller, a, Adam Phillips , Susan SontagSusan Sontag (born January 28, 1933) is a well-known American essayist and novelist. Sontag was in born in New York City, grew up in Tucson, Arizona, and attended high school in Los Angeles. She received her B. from the College of the University of Chicag, John AshberyJohn Ashbery (born July 8, 1927) is one of the most influential and innovative American poets of the 20th century. Born in Rochester, New York and a graduate of Harvard College and Columbia University, Ashbery has won nearly every major American award for, Richard RortyRichard Rorty (born October 4, 1931 in New York City) is an American philosopher. In the humorous Philosophical Lexicon, 'rorty' is defined as 'incorrigible which is a neat summing up both of Rorty's career and the philosophic community's reaction to it., Stanley CavellStanley Cavell (b. 1926) is an American philosopher. Cavell is a philosopher in the critical tradition who is best known for his inclusion of film and literary study into philosophical inquiry. He is Walter M. Cabot Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and th, Slavoj Žižek, Jacqueline Rose , Marina Warner , Angela CarterAngela Carter ( May 7, 1940- February 16, 1992) was an English novelist and journalist, known for her post-feminist magical realist works. Born Angela Olive Stalker in Eastbourne, in 1940, she at first worked as a journalist on the Croydon Advertiser''., Martin AmisMartin Amis (born in Oxford, August 25, 1949) is an English novelist and son of Sir Kingsley Amis. His first novel The Rachel Papers (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award in 1974), is about the adventures of a bright, egotistical teenager (presumably not, Anita Brookner, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes, Hilary Mantel , Colm Tóibín , John Lanchester and Andrew O'Hagan .

The London Review’s first editor was Karl Miller ; the current editor is Mary-Kay Wilmers. As of January 2004, its circulation was 42,700.