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

Jefferson Hope’s condition seems similar to the one that threatens the unnamed narrator of Garth Greenwell’s Small Rain, ...

Tombs Ltd, the New Zealand print shop where I served a small part of an apprenticeship that would have made me a compositor. ...

While normal life must compete with a whole ecosystem, a mirror bacterium might behave like the only real thing in ...

I dreamt of walking out of a landscape as if out of a painting – tipped from the picture by its tilting fields.

In the early stages of the Covid pandemic, Captain Tom Moore decided to try to raise £1000 for the NHS by walking up and down ...

Ionce witnessed Stephen Spender being evil in a London club. A mandarin of poetry, he seemed almost fluorescent with stories and vital resentments, twisting the stem of his glass as he offered ...

The world has been Surrealist for a hundred years, though the adjective that people turn to in trying to describe ...

We had been watching The X-Files at a rate of about two episodes a year; I expected to be finished when I was approximately 114 and living in a small fishing village in Japan. But ever since my ...

Wynne Godley was by turns a professional oboist, a fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, an economist at the Treasury and a director of the Royal Opera House. Yet at thirty he found himself ‘living ...

The Archbishop of Canterbury announced his resignation last month, five days after the publication of an ...