In general, New Left Review is immune to the appeal of actually existing electoral democracy and sceptical about ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

In the final episode of their series, Colin and Clare arrive at Muriel Spark, who would never have considered herself a satirist though her writing was as bitingly satirical as any 20th-century ...

Adam Shatz is joined by Jamelle Bouie and Deborah Friedell to pick through the results and implications of Trump’s victory.

The things that made a medieval king effective also wreaked havoc on government. Good kings took up too much room: ...

In March 1945, the classical music world in Paris split into warring camps after the premiere of Olivier Messiaen’s two-hour devotional suite for solo piano, Vingt Regards sur l’enfant-Jésus. The ...