It’s not enjoyable to look at a crap painting (though Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, two of the biggest Hollywood...

More so than letterpress, mimeograph printing is a visceral snapshot of an instant in time, preserving the flux and mess...

Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 1 October · 47min

Luke Kennard’s Black Bag spans several genres while not belonging to any of them. It’s not quite a campus novel but...

Almost in exchange for the trustingness of his subjects, Hujar became a different person when he was behind the camera:...

British politics has long been complacent about the power of big money. The relatively low price of access to...

Alexander Pope’s works are full of the voices and characters of other people, friends and enemies, the living and the...

The LRB Podcast, live: Beyond the Israel Lobby – The Bob and Sheila Hoerle Lecture Hall at the New School, 63 5th Ave, Thu 29 Oct 2026 - Twenty years ago, the London Review of Books published a contro...

‘Siege’ became a key metaphor in Olga Freidenberg’s analysis of her own life and that of Soviet society; and she...

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

War-fi accounts accurately depict the frontier between Europe and Russia as being in an unstable equilibrium. But they...

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

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

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

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

We are left, a third of the way through The Disappearers, with a feeling of absolute outrage, when outrage is no more...

In Iran, as elsewhere, GLP-1 agonists such as semaglutide and tirzepatide offer a chance to address obesity, improve...

‘Almost everything is imitation,’ Voltaire wrote in one of the French editions of Lettres philosophiques. Books were...

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

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

In Iran, as elsewhere, GLP-1 agonists such as semaglutide and tirzepatide offer a chance to address obesity, improve...

‘What people eat and how they serve it’ fascinated Colwin, and not only because (as she once noted) she’d learned...

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

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

Sociology embodied everything Oxbridge most disliked: it was new; it employed strange methods and ‘barbarous’...

For the Kims, nuclear weapons have never been an end in themselves; they are an insurance policy against attack by their...

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...

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...

We are left, a third of the way through The Disappearers, with a feeling of absolute outrage, when outrage is no more...

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....

‘What people eat and how they serve it’ fascinated Colwin, and not only because (as she once noted) she’d learned...

‘Almost everything is imitation,’ Voltaire wrote in one of the French editions of Lettres philosophiques. Books were...