‘An Invite to Eternity’ begins with ‘dark obscurity’, ‘sad non-identity’ and hellish visionary scenes (‘Where stones will ...

Roughly two-thirds of the YCBA ’s current holdings once belonged to Mellon himself, with the remainder comprising items purchased by the museum or bequeathed to it. What began as a personal project ...

Anne Carson has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. She first appeared in the London Review on the letters page ...

Several schoolchildren have been severely injured by police violence. A 16-year-old in Argenteuil may have lost the use of ...

Lula raised the budget for school lunches, improved access to higher education and free medication, and increased ...

Earlier at her party Simon Shaw had seemed a little excited when I met up with him. Was that sexual interest? – but what did ...

Fredric Jameson seemed to me to have read absolutely everything. He was the very antithesis of the intellectual type ...

In What is literature? (1948) Jean-Paul Sartre argued that writers and artists have a responsibility to engage with political and social realities. But is it still possible for writers to have ...

Ian Penman is the author of Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors, which won the 2024 RSL Ondaatje Prize, and Erik Satie Three Piece Suite.

The title, Switzy, is a flippant nickname for Switzerland, a place like old age: snow-topped, dim and cold. Emma ...

He also directed the homeland security secretary, Markwayne Mullin, to make a list of ‘confirmed’ citizens eligible to vote ...

In​ the long history of mass racial killing in the United States, Nat Turner’s revolt stands out as the one instance in which the perpetrators were Black and the victims white.