At first glance, the row of booths could be mistaken for a chorus line dressing room. There are eight in all; each ...

Children’s fiction has its own peculiar power: like a swordstick in an umbrella, it can flash sharp at unexpected moments. Taken seriously, it can work not just to educate but to transform and ...

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

Music critic Ian Penman is back with a pioneering book of essays alluding to a lost moment in musical history ‘when cultures collided and a cross-generational and “cross-colour” awareness was born’.

It was all sweetness verging on smugness. On the evening of Monday, 6 January we sat in the hot tub in the backyard and looked at the unfull moon. There were really only two small questions ...

The French word for rape is viol. It signals the violence and violation inherent to the acts it names. Since early September, Dominique Pelicot, a 71-year-old Frenchman, has been on trial in Avignon ...

Michael Hofmann talks to Declan Ryan about his first new collection in almost two decades, One Lark, One Horse. Karl Ove Knausgaard talks to Charlotte Higgins about the life and work of Norwegian ...

Daniela Z wanted to be a doctor like her father. He died in 2023, soon after her brother and mother, as a consequence ...

In 1946 Evelyn Waugh declared that 20th-century society – ‘the century of the common man’, as he put it – was so degenerate that satire was no longer possible. But before reaching that conclusion he ...

In the second of three conversations about the crisis in the Middle East, recorded shortly before the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was reported, Yezid Sayigh talks to Adam Shatz about why he ...