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

Nathan Fielder loves an elaborate plan. In the TV show that made his name, Nathan for You, the Canadian satirist ...

The United States was born in war and has waged a war of some sort in every year of its existence. Silicon Valley ...

In Social Topography of a Rural Community, Steve Hindle describes the lives of 780 inhabitants of 176 households ...

Twenty years of writing, reading, thinking and travelling went into Memoirs of Hadrian. Several drafts were burned.

All autobiography is inherently mendacious, if only by omission and with the intent of protecting the innocent. In ...

Georgi Gospodinov​ was 22 when Bulgarian communism collapsed in early 1990. ‘The end of our training,’ he has written, ...

I thought,’ White wrote in his autobiographical masterpiece The Farewell Symphony (1997), ‘that never had a ...

Circular reasoning is normally condemned by philosophers, but in his 1841 essay ‘Circles’, Emerson proposes that not getting anywhere is precisely what we need to do to find out where we already are.

Malak Mattar’s monumental 2024 black-and-white painting inspired by Guernica is entitled No Words (… for Gaza).

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

One way of thinking about fascism is to see it as historically specific: a reactionary mass movement produced by the economic and social chaos that engulfed Europe after the First World War. Fascism ...