The government’s justification for its reform of the courts has shifted from clearing the backlog to modernisation ...

It isn’t necessary to care about any of this to have a nice time at the Lohengrin thermal baths, a short drive from Bayreuth, the Bavarian town where the Wagner festival has been held almost every ...

When the fair closed for good that evening, a banner reading ‘Art of the Rich: War and Genocide’ was unfurled from the first floor. In the toilets at the Grand Palais, someone had written in lipstick ...

How did Lula defeat Bolsonaro so handily, by a far greater margin than in 2022, after losing in the first round? How ...

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

Tom McCarthy, writing in the London Review of Books, described James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ as a ‘heavy book, a book full of ...

But by the late 1600s, the most important commodity from Russia’s forests was no longer fur or fish; it was the trees themselves. The expanding Russian Empire required a naval fleet to defend itself: ...

Things are normal,’ Sofya texted me on Sunday. ‘People really can’t wait to vote. It’s a good ...

The superego, which has all too easily passed into ordinary language as the secular equivalent of the conscience, has had a rather chequered career as both an idea and as one of the main ‘characters’ ...

Missouri Williams’s novels are vicious, lurid and raucously nihilistic. Her first book, The Doloriad (2022), is set outside a ruined Prague, where an incestuous clan – the only known survivors of an ...