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

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

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 ...

There’s a pleasing Cheshire usage that Garner uses throughout his books, plunder to mean ‘ponder’, and as far as he’s ...

Austerity is a choice. The protection of the family at the expense of other ways of living is a choice. The transfer ...

Humanitarian aid has long served as cover for Israeli crimes. Under the Geneva Conventions, an occupying force ...

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

Patricia Lockwood is a contributing editor at the LRB. Her books include two poetry collections, Balloon Pop Outlaw Black and Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals; a memoir, Priestdaddy; and a novel, ...

Chuck Berry’s ‘Maybellene’ recently turned seventy. Recorded on 21 May 1955 in a studio on the South Side ...

The Mill on the Floss is George Eliot’s most autobiographical novel, and the first she published after her identity as a woman was revealed. A ‘dreamscape’ version of her Warwickshire childhood, the ...