James Wood discusses the Bellovian prose style with its Melvillian love of words and biblical undertones, and explores the book’s evocation of a postwar Manhattan imbued with masculinist ...

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Between 1 May and 31 August, more than twenty thousand laboratory-confirmed cases of cyclosporiasis were reported to ...

Users of the British Library received an email on 21 October with the subject line ‘Transforming your Library’.

The government’s justification for its reform of the courts has shifted from clearing the backlog to modernisation ...

Girning about hydro power in Strathglass is a bit like moving to Soho and complaining about the noisy nightlife.

The superego, which has all too easily passed into ordinary language as the secular equivalent of the conscience, has had a rather chequered career as both an idea and as one of the main ‘characters’ ...

How did Lula defeat Bolsonaro so handily, by a far greater margin than in 2022, after losing in the first round? How ...

When the fair closed for good that evening, a banner reading ‘Art of the Rich: War and Genocide’ was unfurled from the first floor. In the toilets at the Grand Palais, someone had written in lipstick ...

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

Richard Wollheim​ once recalled receiving a postcard from Adrian Stokes some time in the early 1960s (the postcard, he said, ...

Missouri Williams’s novels are vicious, lurid and raucously nihilistic. Her first book, The Doloriad (2022), is set outside a ruined Prague, where an incestuous clan – the only known survivors of an ...