Gcina Lepheana had been working deep in the illegal mine for five months when, in October last year, deliveries ...

Both in art and in our general ideas about the passage of human life there is assumed to be a general abiding timeliness. We assume that the essential health of a human life has a great deal to ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. Laleh Khalili talks to Tom about the mythology of covert military operatives, through romance novels, self-help books ...

Adam Shatz, the LRB’s US editor, talks to Sindre Bangstad and Reza Zia-Ebrahimi about the Great Replacement conspiracy theory, from its origins in the high tide of French colonial expansionism in the ...

Colm Tóibín talks to Tom about the life and work of the novelist John McGahern through his recently published correspondence, which includes letters to Tóibín. They discuss his family, his banned work ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. Katherine Rundell has been writing about endangered animals in the LRB since 2018. Her new book, The Golden Mole ...

Geoff Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage, published in 1997, is a brilliant account of attempting to write, and most often failing, a book about his great hero D.H. Lawrence. Now, more than two decades later, ...

Schneewittchen, a film by Stanley Schtinter based on a text by Robert Walser, opens with a shot of a man in black lying in a field of snow, supine, one arm thrown out. The scene emulates photographs ...

Music critic Ian Penman is back with a pioneering book of essays alluding to a lost moment in musical history ‘when cultures collided and a cross-generational and “cross-colour” awareness was born’.

The story goes that St Brendan wasn’t so convincingly unmoved by their company as their previous bedfellow; they suggested he ...

On the horizon is a legally unfettered behemoth capable of coercing organisations, negating rights, suppressing ...

S ir Paul Marshall ​ ’s emergence as a right-wing media tycoon has been rapid. A decade ago he was a Lib Dem donor; now he ...