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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Between 1 May and 31 August, more than twenty thousand laboratory-confirmed cases of cyclosporiasis were reported to ...

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

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

Users of the British Library received an email on 21 October with the subject line ‘Transforming your Library’.

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

Richard Wollheim​ once recalled receiving a postcard from Adrian Stokes some time in the early 1960s (the postcard, he said, ...

Bashir Abu-Manneh is a reader in postcolonial literature and director of the Centre for Postcolonial Studies at the University of Kent.