Gazans honoured their donkeys, dressing them up and walking them down a red carpet to celebrate the ...

Tulathimutte’s characters have no choice but to elevate masturbation to an art because no one else is willing to touch them.

But the flood did severely disrupt the city’s transportation system: Fori Bridge and Lagos Bridge, which connected the east ...

There’s a pleasing Cheshire usage that Garner uses throughout his books, plunder to mean ‘ponder’, and as far as he’s ...

I believe there is a moral case for disarming the machinery of war that is killing innocent civilians in Gaza with ...

Austerity is a choice. The protection of the family at the expense of other ways of living is a choice. The transfer ...

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass are strange books, a testament to their author’s defiant unconventionality. Through them, Lewis Carroll transformed popular culture, our ...

Marguerite Yourcenar entered the Académie Française in 1981, the first woman to be admitted. Her novel Memoirs of Hadrian, published thirty years earlier, is ‘often considered the best French novel of ...

But it’s the same ‘morbid symptom’, the way diaries are morbid symptoms. ‘When the symptoms could no longer be contained by her diary, she waded into a river with her pockets full of stones.’ A lot of ...

Chuck Berry’s ‘Maybellene’ recently turned seventy. Recorded on 21 May 1955 in a studio on the South Side ...

Patricia Lockwood is a contributing editor at the LRB. Her books include two poetry collections, Balloon Pop Outlaw Black and Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals; a memoir, Priestdaddy; and a novel, ...

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