At the first interval in the Berlin Staatsoper’s new production of La Vestale, the man to my right turned to me ...

‘An Invite to Eternity’ begins with ‘dark obscurity’, ‘sad non-identity’ and hellish visionary scenes (‘Where stones will ...

Pablo Scheffer joins Tom to explore the transition from Roman to British to Anglo-Saxon England between the sixth and eighth centuries. They discuss why none of the changes that took place was ...

In 2018, Penguin published Giorgio Bassani’s six-part cycle The Novel of Ferrara, translated by Jamie McKendrick, as a single volume. A regular customer at the bookshop where I work recently showed me ...

Lula raised the budget for school lunches, improved access to higher education and free medication, and increased ...

Rosemary is joined again by Vanessa Harding to see why James I’s Stuart settlement eventually failed under the personal rule of Charles I, leading to a civil war in which London became the financial ...

Pablo Scheffer joins Tom to explore the transition from Roman to British to Anglo-Saxon England between the sixth and eighth centuries. They discuss why none of the changes that took place was ...

Read anywhere with the London Review of Books app, available now from the App Store for Apple devices, Google Play for Android devices and Amazon for your Kindle Fire. Find out more about the London ...

In this episode, Vadim joins Thomas Jones to discuss the legacy of the Trump-Russia dossier, Christopher Steele’s career before and after its release and how the internal workings of the business ...

They see themselves as resurrecting the barricades of 1968, and reclaim ‘La Marseillaise’ when they march. If one of the ...

John Clare’s tombstone in Helpston declares that ‘A poet is born not made,’ echoing sentiments expressed during his lifetime. In 1822 the Eclectic Review noted that ‘such a poet as John Clare, ...