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 ...

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

Rats are unnerving in part because of their elusiveness, which makes the rat in the head seem more real than the rat ...

People often reach for machine-based metaphors when describing the way Jannik Sinner plays tennis. If his game ...

Vincent Brown is a professor of American history at Harvard.

When tickets for Euro 2025 went on sale last year, UEFA made the usual noises about igniting passion, inspiring the ...

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

The Mill on the Floss is George Eliot’s most autobiographical novel, and the first she published after her identity as a woman was revealed. A ‘dreamscape’ version of her Warwickshire childhood, the ...

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

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

Humanitarian aid has long served as cover for Israeli crimes. Under the Geneva Conventions, an occupying force ...

Adam Mars-Jones is a professor of creative writing at Goldsmiths. His novels include Box Hill and Batlava Lake, which are quite brief, and Pilcrow and Cedilla, which are intended to be part of a ...