J.H. Prynne has always seemed to me to represent the real potential of poetry, as an art that can encompass ...
The UK’s nuclear weapons capability is dependent on the US. Not only does Britain rent its Trident missiles ...
The Cocktail Party by T.S. Eliot was first performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 1949. In 1966, Spalding Gray acted in it in upstate New York. He later spoke of being especially interested in Celia, ...
It isn’t controversial to expect courts to be politically neutral when deciding cases that have great political ...
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Seeing my serious Chinese-made firearm, Haruki Murakami once said to me: ‘You’re the only writer I know who has ...
On Wednesday , 8 April, Israel expanded its kill zone beyond what had been known as the ‘safe’ areas north of Beirut’s suburban south. I talked to a doctor at the American University Hospital who told ...
The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of ...
The careers of Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun and Maria Cosway required constant, delicate calibration to keep the balance between personal reputation, artistic success and the need to earn a living, ...
The Kristóf who emerges from the sources was, like the twins in the Notebook trilogy, a person divided in two.