An ocean-going navy is not a workaday public service, like a coastguard or a constabulary. It is a grand project, ...

All the little aliens in the Duane Barry episode are children wearing huge grey heads. Between takes they ran around, playing ...

Only two daughters of the Tudor dynasty in its three-generation tenure of the English crown experienced the full force of ...

In no sense was Frank Auerbach a topographical artist. Primrose Hill, Mornington Crescent and the entrance to his ...

Given what it sets out to do, it’s hard to fault The Thursday Murder Club. The sentences flow smoothly, the jokes ...

The first hour of Anora, Sean Baker says, belongs to the genre of romantic comedy. This makes interesting sense if ...

Keir Starmer described Badenoch’s election as a ‘proud moment for our country’. He presumably meant that ...

The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of ...

You might think that a novelist who works in more than one language would want language itself to become conceptual, ...

The character of Gawain, one of King Arthur’s leading knights, recurs throughout medieval literature, but the way he’s presented underwent a curious development during the period, moving closer and ...

The polycrisis that is unfolding demands not a return to the status quo but urgent, progressive answers both at home ...

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