Max Richter’s Sleep, made up of 204 continuous movements, plays for nearly eight and a half hours. This is not as ...

Two marches will assemble in central London tomorrow. One is championing the rights of Palestinians and commemorating ...

A hantavirus outbreak is extremely unexpected. Part of the confusion in press coverage has arisen from the messiness ...

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

The movie producer​, cinematographer and screenwriter Harrison Starr died in 2024 at the age of 95. Almost no one noticed. If his name was ever mentioned it was usually in connection with those of ...

Nicholas Higham’s How England Began: From Roman Britain to the Anglo-Saxons has just been published. While Æthelstan’s grandfather, Alfred, had revived the practice of issuing law codes, Æthelstan was ...

Harrison’s life and career was part of the postwar flowering of the avant-garde, which reached its apotheosis in ...

Iran was placed ‘right at the top of the list’ of America’s enemies by Cheney – even if it took his successors another two ...

While Æthelstan’s grandfather, Alfred, had revived the practice of issuing law codes, Æthelstan was by far the ...

The people of Unnimore thought that ‘flitting’ would not come upon them while they lived. As long as they paid the rent, and ...

Lynette Roberts loved obscure words and was not shy about using them. Over the course of two pages, I had to look up ...

Marlen Haushofer’s​ masterpiece, The Wall (1963), opens with the cessation of time, at least as humans mark and measure it.