Mussorgsky’s alcoholism caught up with him before he could finish Khovanshchina. At the time of his death in 1881 ...

Admirers of Morris the revolutionary have shared his uncertainties. George Bernard Shaw thought Morris’s late-life addiction ...

John XXIII, the pope who initiated the council in 1962, described it as an aggiornamento, a ‘bringing up to date’, an attempt ...

Colombia produced a record 2600 tons of cocaine in 2023 and at least a third of it passed through Ecuador – ...

Director and screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz on adapting Deborah Levy’s Hot Milk for the big screen, in conversation with Gaby Wood, chief executive of the Booker Prize Foundation and a regular ...

In the more fortunate and vastly different condition of life under civil government, the ideal of independence had become a ...

My former colleague Nicholas Mostyn writes gloomily that ‘we will likely lose speech, mobility and continence and be beset by excruciating pain – but no doctor will ever give us a terminal diagnosis.’ ...

Mathieu Kassovitz’s​ film La Haine is regarded as a classic in many circles. ‘Classic’ may not be quite ...

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

The Queen Mary University of London branch of the University and College Union, of which I am co-chair, hosts a ...