One of the only ways for foreign correspondents to get into Mali now is to rely on the services of human smugglers, as ...

Though he enjoyed a spell as Auden and Isherwood’s ambassador in London, he resented Isherwood’s use of their Berlin years in ...

The world has been Surrealist for a hundred years, though the adjective that people turn to in trying to describe ...

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’.

Alan Bennett reads from his short story, ‘The Uncommon Reader’, first published in the LRB in 2007, in which HM the Queen drifts accidentally into reading – and reading subversively at that – when her ...

The Archbishop of Canterbury announced his resignation last month, five days after the publication of an ...