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

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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 ...

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.

After following up a lead from a birdwatcher, Rachel Carson drew a web of connections that led to one of the most influential books of the 20th century. Silent Spring (1962) investigated the synthetic ...

So far as we know, true symbolic language is unique to the human species. The question of how we alone came to ...