The music that showed me who I wanted to be, what I wanted from life, was the music that came out on Sarah Records.

Seeing my serious Chinese-made firearm, Haruki Murakami once said to me: ‘You’re the only writer I know who has ...

I n November ​ 1956, a few weeks after Soviet tanks rolled into Budapest, a 21-year-old Ágota Kristóf and her husband, Janos ...

Like many of my students from South Lebanon and the Shia quarters of Beirut, he is renting in a ‘safe’ area of the capital.

J ames Schuyler ​ gave his first public reading on 15 November 1988. People queued around the block to get a seat, and at the ...

It isn’t controversial to expect courts to be politically neutral when deciding cases that have great political ...

So far as we know, true symbolic language is unique to the human species. The question of how we alone came to ...

Transcription, Lerner’s fourth novel, springs from a different kind of failure that makes reality unavailable: the narrator’s ...

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

Time is embedded in the way Mark Jenkin works – not just the occasional resurrection but the hand-cranked cameras ...

In a strong field of contenders, the most morally troubling computer game ever made is probably RapeLay, released ...

Yesterday morning, after the ceasefire agreement between the United States and Iran, many displaced people in Lebanon started heading back to the south. At around 2 p.m., Israel hit the country with a ...