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Residents say shop threatens Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s last surviving tearoom months after vape shop blaze nearby

Her appointment by the king makes her only the second woman to lead a government in the Arab world.

Conversations on Writing does touch on how these big impossible questions can be found within the smallest choices we make as writers, within syntax, voice, point of view, and narrative. And the gestu...

Foreign secretary will tell party’s conference ‘we are not here to accept the status quo but to change it’

Robert Louis Stevenson, the lighthouse dynasty he left behind and the sea that shaped him.

Online comments reflect class tensions at Scottish university between those from lower-income families and wealthier US undergraduates

Jacques Testard is transforming our reading habits, one blue book at a time

Emma Donoghue, author of Room, said she “shed a tear” when she heard that her book would appear on the stamps.

YouTube video by Echo & the Bunnymen

My first meeting with George Saunders took place in his home of ten years, a ranch house in the Catskills. The house stood on fifteen acres of hilly woods, crisscrossed by narrow paths that he and...

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

Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 18 September · 37min

Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

My first meeting with George Saunders took place in his home of ten years, a ranch house in the Catskills. The house stood on fifteen acres of hilly woods, crisscrossed by narrow paths that he and...

Thomas called followers to protest against arrival of asylum seekers in Gosport, but Border Force instead transported them to Dover

It’s nearly a year and a half since my mum died and I miss her terribly. I want to talk to her, ask her advice, hang out in her beautiful flat (now sold), laugh, feel frustrated, all of it. Just after...

Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 18 September · 37min

Men with heart, kidney or liver conditions more likely to be offered intervention compared with women, global analysis finds

Playwright was an unusual mix of originality and authority and in high demand as a cultural critic

The landmark documentary series looked like it was done for good – until one participant was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Asif Kapadia takes the helm for its most elegiac, thoughtful outing ever

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