Only two daughters of the Tudor dynasty in its three-generation tenure of the English crown experienced the full force of ...

An ocean-going navy is not a workaday public service, like a coastguard or a constabulary. It is a grand project, ...

All the little aliens in the Duane Barry episode are children wearing huge grey heads. Between takes they ran around, playing ...

In no sense was Frank Auerbach a topographical artist. Primrose Hill, Mornington Crescent and the entrance to his ...

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

Apuleius’ Metamorphoses, better known as The Golden Ass, is the only ancient Roman novel to have survived in its entirety. Following the story of Lucius, forced to suffer as a donkey until the goddess ...

Music critic Ian Penman is back with a pioneering book of essays alluding to a lost moment in musical history ‘when cultures collided and a cross-generational and “cross-colour” awareness was born’.

Jane Ellen Harrison was Britain’s first female career academic, a maverick public intellectual labelled ‘the cleverest woman in England’. Her quips and quirks have become legendary, but many of those ...

What is it about the body that resists plain description? When we discuss our bodies, we evoke other things: the body as machine, possibly malfunctioning; the body as computer, infinitely programmable ...

On the morning of the US presidential election, my twelve-year-old son told me that Trump was going to win: ‘All the influencers back him, and he’s all over social media’ (this although my son has no ...