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

I received an email from my boss at the health department where I work on social epidemiology. It was ...

The era in which Strabo lived, the saddle between the first centuries bc and ad, was highly receptive to kolossourgiai. The ...

There is a troubling disconnect between the deterrent rationale and the mechanism that will be used to deny ...

In other words, Trump’s America adopts, wholesale, Putin’s explanation for his actions, right down to his mocking accusations against the man who, against enormous odds, led his country’s defence.

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

The exhibition is the first properly to consider Goldin as a filmmaker. When The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1979-86) came ...

The tricks of artificial cold were once regarded with suspicion and awe. Twilley describes the world’s first cold-storage banquet, staged in Chicago in October 1911 by the Poultry, Butter and Egg ...

When Szalay’s frustrated male characters lash out, the result is always self-harm. In All That Man Is Balázs punches a client ...

This was also the year that Marianne Faithfull recorded what was to become her most celebrated album, Broken English. Her ...

On​ the morning of 18 April 2023, the chess grandmaster Ding Liren was discussing tactics with his coach. He was ...

Music critic Ian Penman is back with a pioneering book of essays alluding to a lost moment in musical history ‘when cultures collided and a cross-generational and “cross-colour” awareness was born’.