Between 1988 and 1994, the UK scrambled to make sense of acid house, with its radical new sounds, new drugs and new ways of partying. In a recent piece for the paper, Chal Ravens considers a...
Between 1988 and 1994, the UK scrambled to make sense of acid house, with its radical new sounds, new drugs and new ways of partying. In a recent piece for the paper, Chal Ravens considers a...
When is giving up not failure, but a way of succeeding at something else? In this conversation with Hermione Lee, recorded at the London Review Bookshop, the psychoanalyst and critic Adam Phillips explores...
At turns expressionistic, confessional, clinical, sharply satirical and politically charged, Black Skin, White Masks is dazzlingly multivocal, sometimes self-contradictory but always compelling. Judith...
Melodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, mystery – Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors is cult critic Ian Penman’s long awaited first original book, a kaleidoscopic...
In his LRB Winter Lecture delivered on 28 February 2024, Pankaj Mishra considers the ways in which our moral and political consciousness is profoundly altered when Israel, a country founded as a haven...
James Meek goes wildfowling with DeWayne Cross in Lincolnshire, while researching his piece on housebuilding and floodplains in and around Boston.
Tom Crewe talks about his debut novel, The New Life, which presents a fictionalised account of the lives and loves of John Addington Symonds and Henry Havelock Ellis, and their collaboration on a revolutionary...
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