The superego, which has all too easily passed into ordinary language as the secular equivalent of the conscience, has had a rather chequered career as both an idea and as one of the main ‘characters’ ...

When the fair closed for good that evening, a banner reading ‘Art of the Rich: War and Genocide’ was unfurled from the first floor. In the toilets at the Grand Palais, someone had written in lipstick ...

How did Lula defeat Bolsonaro so handily, by a far greater margin than in 2022, after losing in the first round? How ...

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

Richard Wollheim​ once recalled receiving a postcard from Adrian Stokes some time in the early 1960s (the postcard, he said, ...

In the early 1860s, Tennyson was at the height of his celebrity. His great elegy, In Memoriam (1850), seemed to have captured the spiritual unease of the age, and the first instalment of Idylls of the ...

Girning about hydro power in Strathglass is a bit like moving to Soho and complaining about the noisy nightlife.

F ootball players ​ and managers often use the phrase ‘the dark arts’ to refer to practices that stretch, but don’t always break, the rules. Examples include time-wasting of various kinds, feigning ...

It isn’t necessary to care about any of this to have a nice time at the Lohengrin thermal baths, a short drive from Bayreuth, the Bavarian town where the Wagner festival has been held almost every ...

But by the late 1600s, the most important commodity from Russia’s forests was no longer fur or fish; it was the trees themselves. The expanding Russian Empire required a naval fleet to defend itself: ...

Things are normal,’ Sofya texted me on Sunday. ‘People really can’t wait to vote. It’s a good ...

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