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 ...

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’.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Alan Bennett reads from his short story, ‘The Uncommon Reader’, first published in the LRB in 2007, in which HM the Queen drifts accidentally into reading – and reading subversively at that – when her ...

Starmer’s strategy of modest progress and alliance-building could be scuppered by the fiscal hawks in his ...

George Szirtes’ mother, Magda, was a Hungarian photographer who survived two concentration camps and escaped Budapest with her family in 1956 for England. In this film, Anthony Wilks spends time with ...