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For a certain kind of northern man, Burgess has always been – for once the term is apt – something of an icon. A bit...

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We require heroism of our entertainers. We want them sacrificing themselves to a certain ultimate degree of input. No...

For a certain kind of northern man, Burgess has always been – for once the term is apt – something of an icon. A bit...

Britain has private ownership while making the state responsible for planning via subsidies. The result is a zombie...

Over the course of 24 novels and 87 years, Anita Brookner achieved many dislocations of selfhood and may have become...

My father, Peter Campbell, took these photographs of Anita Brookner for the LRB in 1982. The pictures must have been...

Any self-respecting 18th-century encyclopedia of the arts and sciences contains an entry along the lines of this one...

The West can play at being universal, seeing itself as the only ‘civilisation’ and basing itself on metrics of...

‘I was absolutely overwhelmed by jazz because I knew that was America,’ Model wrote. ‘And that was something I...

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The judges might argue that the Court of Appeal is a court of review, whose job is simply to assess whether a conviction...

Schoenberg looked backward and forward. In his commitment to perpetuating the Austro-German canon, he drew on the...

Etta Shiber’s account of life in Nazi-occupied Paris shows a vivid domestic world seldom seen in comparable memoirs....

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Whistler has not had a major retrospective in Europe in the last thirty years. The Tate show should have been an...

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Any self-respecting 18th-century encyclopedia of the arts and sciences contains an entry along the lines of this one...

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A couple of days before I arrived in Predappio, I read that Hitler’s birthplace in Austria had been compulsorily...

In the great immigration panics of today, sympathy is focused on the home team. We are the ones who are being hurt. It...

The frenzy in Israel surrounding the documentary NAZA is fundamentally undemocratic. That is what happens after years of...

Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 23 September · 1hr 7min

Britain has private ownership while making the state responsible for planning via subsidies. The result is a zombie...

Classical Athens was a polis, but so was a tiny Arcadian town such as Orchomenos. In the second century AD, the obscure...

Any self-respecting 18th-century encyclopedia of the arts and sciences contains an entry along the lines of this one...

LRB Screen presents ‘The Flowers of St Francis’ at Great St Barts – St Bartholomew the Great, Mon 5 Oct 2026 - The Flowers of St Francis (Italy, 1950). 87 mins. English subtitles.A special screening o...