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

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

Ralph Miliband observed that the Labour Party’s role was ‘the management of discontent’, keeping it ‘within safe bounds’. From an anti-communist perspective, the welfare state was created as a bulwark ...

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

The series begins with Søren Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling (1843), an exploration of faith through the story of Abraham and Isaac. Like most of Kierkegaard’s published work, Fear and Trembling ...

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 ...

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 ...

Édouard Louis, one of France’s most acclaimed young writers, shot to international fame with his first novel, the semi-autobiographical 'End of Eddy'. His third novel, 'Who Killed My Father', revisits ...