In the 1280s, a loggia for the market was built by the architect Arnolfo di Cambio. Soon after its construction, Orsanmichele ...

Tulathimutte’s characters have no choice but to elevate masturbation to an art because no one else is willing to touch them.

But the flood did severely disrupt the city’s transportation system: Fori Bridge and Lagos Bridge, which connected the east ...

But it’s the same ‘morbid symptom’, the way diaries are morbid symptoms. ‘When the symptoms could no longer be contained by her diary, she waded into a river with her pockets full of stones.’ A lot of ...

I believe there is a moral case for disarming the machinery of war that is killing innocent civilians in Gaza with ...

Attempts to abolish England’s bishops, driven by Scottish Presbyterians, appeared to open the door to social revolution. So ...

People often reach for machine-based metaphors when describing the way Jannik Sinner plays tennis. If his game ...

Cannes was chosen in the hope that the festival would revive its appeal as a luxury destination, which had floundered after ...

When tickets for Euro 2025 went on sale last year, UEFA made the usual noises about igniting passion, inspiring the ...

Adam Mars-Jones is a professor of creative writing at Goldsmiths. His novels include Box Hill and Batlava Lake, which are quite brief, and Pilcrow and Cedilla, which are intended to be part of a ...

Vincent Brown is a professor of American history at Harvard.

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