LRB Films & Interviews

Philosopher Jonathan Rée unravels the story within Spinoza's knotty work of 17th century rationalism, the Ethics

Following the fire at Grenfell Tower, Anthony Wilks investigates the culture of Kensington and Chelsea Council and where it came from.

Alan Bennett finds similarities between Love Island and the Bloomsbury set.

Sheila Fitzpatrick considers how the Russian Revolution is viewed by the Russian government and academics in the West.

Nicholas Penny, former director of the National Gallery, explains how Kenneth Clark transformed the National Gallery as director from 1934 to 1945, with a look at the Myra Hess concerts and Clark's wide-ranging acquisitions.

Michael Wood looks at how Fritz Lang uses sound in his first two sound films, M (1931) and The Testament of Dr Mabuse (1933).

Iain Sinclair gives a tour around the area near his home in Hackney, London.

Rosemary Hill surveys British propaganda from the Second World War, including the work of Abram Games and Edward McKnight Kauffer.

David Runciman reflects on Trump, Brexit and threats to democracy, with some help from Alexis de Tocqueville.

Nicholas Penny looks through the letters of Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau, who visited England in the late 1820s.

Steven Rose explains C.H. Waddington's early experiments and the implications of epigenetics for evolution.

Follow the creation of an edition of the London Review of Books, from editorial floor to your front door.

Rosemary Hill answers the Dowager Duchess’s question from Downton Abbey.

Jeremy Harding examines the work of Malian portrait photographer Seydou Keïta and the lively collaboration between himself and his sitters in the years before Mail’s independence.

Andrew O'Hagan analyses Craig Wright’s failed attempts to prove he was Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin.