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

The government’s support for Heathrow expansion is in keeping with the robotic incantations of economic growth ...

Much of what was great about Chris Jefferies was used to attack him and destroy his reputation when the media, ...

Stanford was among the first composers in Britain to write church music that was not automatically relegated to ...

Last week, a trove of leaked documents offered a glimpse into the role that large technology companies have played ...

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

While Trump’s schemes to impose tariffs on Chinese, Canadian, Mexican and European imports have been taken ...

Ronald Reagan, as Jackson Lears wrote recently in the LRB, was a ‘telegenic demagogue’ whose ‘emotional appeal was built on white people’s racism’. His presidency left the United States a far more ...

‘Television Was a Baby Crawling towards That Deathchamber.’ These words are by Allen Ginsberg, writing in 1961, the title of a poem anathematising America. ‘It is here, the long Awaited bleap-blast ...

Iain Sinclair discusses his latest book, The Last London, with Stewart Lee at St George’s church, Bloomsbury. Tony Wood talks to James Meek about his book Russia with Putin, which looks at, among ...

The speeches American presidents deliver on the day of their inauguration don’t make much of a difference to anything. A handful have given resonant phrases to the language (‘The better angels of our ...

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’.