Britain’s nuclear subservience to the US dates from the 1958 Mutual Defence Agreement ( MDA) between Washington and London: ...

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J.H. Prynne has always seemed to me to represent the real potential of poetry, as an art that can encompass ...

Mary Shelley signed off her introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein by bidding her ‘hideous progeny go forth and prosper’. In this episode of The Man Behind the Curtain, Tom McCarthy and ...

It isn’t controversial to expect courts to be politically neutral when deciding cases that have great political ...

In Nayatt School, Spalding Gray played a ‘pedantic schoolteacher’ and the psychiatrist from The Cocktail ...

Time is embedded in the way Mark Jenkin works – not just the occasional resurrection but the hand-cranked cameras ...

Seeing my serious Chinese-made firearm, Haruki Murakami once said to me: ‘You’re the only writer I know who has ...

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

When Jessica Mitford (aka Decca) was eleven, in 1928, she opened a Running Away Account at Drummonds Bank. A few years later she ran away to Spain to help in the fight against Franco, and not long ...

The Kristóf who emerges from the sources was, like the twins in the Notebook trilogy, a person divided in two.

Like many of my students from South Lebanon and the Shia quarters of Beirut, he is renting in a ‘safe’ area of the capital.