Southwell begins, ‘that you are become a sworn enemy to poetry?’ The publication of two of Southwell’s manuscripts, ...

Labour was once an organic part of the peasant household, done in the interest of subsistence. Certainly many people ...

Nicola Barker’s​ latest novel, TonyInterruptor, is a reaction to, and reflection on, a moment of creative crisis. While ...

William, appointing himself leader of the Nasties, rejects the feminine associations of Herr Hitler, preferring to call ...

But without insulin the sugar can’t be used, so the starvation response continues, and the body resorts to burning fatty tissue for energy, turning the blood acidic and lacing the breath with the ...

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

Jürgen Habermas may be variously described as the moral conscience of postwar Germany, the last great ...

In the weeks that followed, a new protest movement coalesced; it continues to demonstrate sixteen months later. For its leaders, the collapse is symptomatic of the corruption at the heart of ...

Willa Cather’s reader, like her characters, must keep an ear out for the whisper, an eye out for the sign and a ...

I had gone to the bank to get cash when a sudden explosion shook the building. Windows shattered and people fell to ...

On 5 June 1975, four carabinieri officers, in one car, drove up a winding road to an isolated farmhouse above ...

As fast as the flames flew up, the news of the fire spread not just through the city but among Glaswegians in ...