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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 the early 1860s, Tennyson was at the height of his celebrity. His great elegy, In Memoriam (1850), seemed to have captured the spiritual unease of the age, and the first instalment of Idylls of the ...

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

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 ...