What happened to the veterans of Occupy Wall Street? In the case of Bree Hietala, she moved to Detroit with her husband, bought cheap derelict houses left behind in the city’s decline and abandonment, ...

Mary Lavin published some of the finest short stories since Joyce, along with two novels, children’s books and a clutch of poems, and the scale of her achievement was recognised by J.D. Salinger, ...

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In March 1973, before taking his new play, The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil, around the village halls of the Highlands, John McGrath accepted a last-minute invitation to perform it at a ...

It isn’t necessary to care about any of this to have a nice time at the Lohengrin thermal baths, a short drive from Bayreuth, the Bavarian town where the Wagner festival has been held almost every ...

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 ...

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

Tom McCarthy, writing in the London Review of Books, described James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ as a ‘heavy book, a book full of ...

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 ...

James is joined by Gary Gerstle to reflect on some of the major changes in the political evolution of the United States, including the expansion of federal power in the 20th century, the perpetual ...