At first glance, the row of booths could be mistaken for a chorus line dressing room. There are eight in all; each ...
The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of ...
Daniela Z wanted to be a doctor like her father. He died in 2023, soon after her brother and mother, as a consequence ...
Starmer’s strategy of modest progress and alliance-building could be scuppered by the fiscal hawks in his ...
Children’s fiction has its own peculiar power: like a swordstick in an umbrella, it can flash sharp at unexpected moments. Taken seriously, it can work not just to educate but to transform and ...
The series begins with Søren Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling (1843), an exploration of faith through the story of Abraham and Isaac. Like most of Kierkegaard’s published work, Fear and Trembling ...
Marina Warner is joined by Anna Della Subin to introduce Fiction and the Fantastic, a new Close Readings series running through 2025. Marina describes the scope of the series, in which she will also ...
The Pickwick Bicycle Club first met on 22 June 1870, a fortnight after Charles Dickens’s death, at a hotel in Hackney. The club continues to function and the building still stands on the edge of ...
Neal Ascherson has worked as a journalist for more than six decades, reporting from Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, its successor states and elsewhere. He has also written more than a hundred pieces ...