Above Côte Brasserie in Kingston upon Thames, overlooking its Riverside Walk, there was for a week in mid-November ...

Some parishioners morphed into willing Protestants; defiant Catholics – recusants – refused to attend services; other ...

In this first episode of a new strand in the LRB Podcast, host James Butler talks to former Labour MP and minister Chris Mullin, columnist Andy Beckett and journalist Morgan Jones about whether Labour ...

Vallejo was born in 1892, the youngest of eleven children, in an Andean town in the north of Peru. Using the word for a child ...

After seventeen minutes the sky cleared. Seventeen minutes of rain was enough to flood the tents of thousands of families.

In The Impact of Labour, Maurice Cowling wrote that politics in the 1920s was ‘fifty or sixty people’ in tension with one another. The Battle of Ideas, which packed out Church House for a weekend in ...

Jorge Luis Borges was a librarian with rock star status, a stimulus for magical realism who was not a magical realist, and a wholly original writer who catalogued and defined his own precursors.

No Kings.’ Instead, it says: ‘Not this one, but perhaps his brother or his ...

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

Schopenhauer has long held the title of gloomiest philosopher in history. He sees human existence not as grand ...

In the autumn of 2013, archaeologists digging beneath the chancel of a ruined church in Jamestown, Virginia, discovered four graves. They belonged to some of the earliest inhabitants of England’s ...