The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of ...

The first hour of Anora, Sean Baker says, belongs to the genre of romantic comedy. This makes interesting sense if ...

Given what it sets out to do, it’s hard to fault The Thursday Murder Club. The sentences flow smoothly, the jokes ...

Keir Starmer described Badenoch’s election as a ‘proud moment for our country’. He presumably meant that ...

Fred Sparks had lots of readers. Wire services bragged when they bagged him and dispatched his dispatches to dozens ...

I t had been ​ twenty years since my last research trip to the British Library when, in November last year, I received an email with the subject line: ‘Important information about our recent cyber ...

Not all accounts of prehistory have been quite so triumphant. According to Geroulanos, Rousseau was the first to articulate modernity’s fascination with the distant past. The idea of the state of ...

You might think that a novelist who works in more than one language would want language itself to become conceptual, ...

The polycrisis that is unfolding demands not a return to the status quo but urgent, progressive answers both at home ...

Jane Ellen Harrison was Britain’s first female career academic, a maverick public intellectual labelled ‘the cleverest woman in England’. Her quips and quirks have become legendary, but many of those ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. In the second episode of her short series looking at why Stonehenge has occupied such an important place in the story ...

The character of Gawain, one of King Arthur’s leading knights, recurs throughout medieval literature, but the way he’s presented underwent a curious development during the period, moving closer and ...