The novels weren’t the point. The point of Nan Shepherd was herself. My mother described what a thrill it was to ...

No doubt, some individuals have always pulled levers behind the scenes to benefit themselves and their ...

Apuleius’ Metamorphoses, better known as The Golden Ass, is the only ancient Roman novel to have survived in its entirety. Following the story of Lucius, forced to suffer as a donkey until the goddess ...

In response to attacks by warring guerrilla factions that have killed dozens of people and displaced tens of ...

Thirty years ago, the passing of the Criminal Appeal Act led to the foundation of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), a publicly funded body intended to investigate miscarriages of justice ...

When diva worship turns an artist into an icon, everyone ...

I always like to say that Iranian cinema emerges out of a thousand years of poetry, and Canadian cinema emerges ...

For reasons that have little if anything to do with US national security or foreign policy, Donald Trump has made ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. Pankaj Mishra joins Adam Shatz to discuss his recent LRB Winter Lecture, in which he explores Israel’s ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. Alan Bennett reads extracts from his diary from March 2020 to March 2021. Alan Bennett’s pandemic diary will be ...

Seamus Perry and Mark Ford look at the life and work of Charlotte Mew, who brought the Victorian art of dramatic monologue into the 20th century, and whose difficult experiences are often refracted ...