Fredric Jameson seemed to me to have read absolutely everything. He was the very antithesis of the intellectual type ...

Several schoolchildren have been severely injured by police violence. A 16-year-old in Argenteuil may have lost the use of ...

Anne Carson has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. She first appeared in the London Review on the letters page ...

In What is literature? (1948) Jean-Paul Sartre argued that writers and artists have a responsibility to engage with political and social realities. But is it still possible for writers to have ...

Ian Penman is the author of Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors, which won the 2024 RSL Ondaatje Prize, and Erik Satie Three Piece Suite.

The modern zoo is nearly two centuries old. The zoological gardens in Regent’s Park were established in 1828 by the inventor Humphry Davy and the colonial adventurer Stamford Raffles, founder of ...