Andrade tried out Surrealist poetry and wrote an ironic novel with the painfully abstract title Amar, Verbo Intransitivo. It ...

Five hundred years ago this week, the rebels of the German Peasants’ War, or Bauernkrieg, were defeated in a series ...

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

She’s just moved in with Elliot. Their new flat is in an affluent neighbourhood, surrounded by bakeries, yoga studios and organic vegetable shops. They even have a garden. And yet, from the moment ...

In 2019, a group of scientists led by Owen Toon, a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, modelled the climatic effects of a nuclear conflict between ...

Months before the Trumpist onslaught on higher education, US universities were rushing to prohibit protest encampments. Why do some ramshackle tents on lawns present such a threat to authority – as ...

Hugh Roberts has died from cancer at the age of 76. Among his books were a collection of penetrating articles ...

Walt Whitman was a great recycler. He composts himself at the end of ‘Song of Myself’: ‘I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,/If you want me again look for me under your ...