In May 2025, ten people affiliated with Eksmo, Russia’s publishing behemoth, were detained in Moscow. Three of them,...

Comrades in Fire is a portrait of interwar Europe by one of the most stylish and underappreciated writers of the Soviet avant-garde, the Latvian-born Sergei Tretyakov. From 1930 to 1931, Tretyakov tra...

「黙殺」という日本語を英語に訳した瞬間に、広島と長崎が消えた。 1945年夏、鈴木貫太郎首相はポツダム宣言に対して「ただ黙殺するのみ」とコメントした。 本人の意図は「ノーコメント」だった。しかし当時の翻訳は "ignore"（無視する）と英訳され、ニューヨーク・タイムズは「日本、連合国の降伏勧告を公式に拒絶」という見出しを打った。日本が降伏する意思を持っていない、とアメリカは判断した。その数週間...

Workshop to explore how advances in machine translation and language learning are reshaping linguistic diversity.

According to the most recent census, English is not the main language of 4.2 million people in England and Wales (7.7...

The future of work is increasingly on our minds. Now that AI is coming for our jobs, will we end up supervising or being supervised by it? One way of spending the time freed up by smart tech is to rea...

The industrial novel, once a flourishing genre, has more recently been somewhat overlooked by anglophone authors. This century hasn’t yet produced its

Sauna Theatre, the first project from new company Sauna Sessions Arts Club, is the UK’s largest sauna and the first to be purpose built to showcase theatre,

In Nayatt School, Spalding Gray played a ‘pedantic schoolteacher’ and the psychiatrist from The Cocktail Party,...

In Nayatt School, Spalding Gray played a ‘pedantic schoolteacher’ and the psychiatrist from The Cocktail Party,...

In Nayatt School, Spalding Gray played a ‘pedantic schoolteacher’ and the psychiatrist from The Cocktail Party,...

‘As anyone who has gleefully spotted a typo in a prestigious publication, felt a flicker of schadenfreude at a pompous critic’s downfall, or secretly enjoyed a literary scandal knows, it is possible t...

Krupa Gallery invites you to an evening with Sean Ashton as part of the programming for the exhibition How to Avoid Being Wrapped.

Ride - History Cycle: A bike tour of Hackney – 75 Downs Rd, E5 8DS, Sun 24 May 2026 - The Pickwick Bicycle Club, founded in Hackney in 1870, is the world’s oldest cycling association. The ride will st...

‘Let the Minion skate!’ people were urging on social media days before the start of the Winter Olympics. Universal...

‘Let the Minion skate!’ people were urging on social media days before the start of the Winter Olympics. Universal...

‘Let the Minion skate!’ people were urging on social media days before the start of the Winter Olympics. Universal...

In Reading Chekhov (2001), the critic Janet Malcolm called her subject’s early stories “undistinguished”. While this may be true of many of the

Jacqueline Riding’s meticulously researched history paints a vivid picture of working-class London in the Victorian and Edwardian eras

Our round-up of the latest art publications

Collections of short stories are sometimes made from previously published material, offering few surprises beyond the sequencing of the pieces. Paris

Review 31 is an online literary review.

On Monday morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British Library...

On Monday morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British Library...

On Monday morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British Library...

On Monday morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British Library...

There’s an eureka moment, reading Pyotr Pavlensky’s Subject–Object Art Theory, when you realise he isn’t interested in soothing anyone...

Child labor reform advocate Lewis Hine photographed dozens of young cyclists who made deliveries to the seediest neighborhoods.

Virgin Media apologises after using Welsh word for prostitute to describe Wales hooker Ryan Elias.

The celebrated Irish writer had his pass revoked in 1895 after being imprisoned for a gay relationship.

Writers, critics and others dream-edit a personal anthology of their favourite short stories

John Heartfield was forced to leave Germany in 1933. Even before the Nazis put him on their hit list, his art had caused...