Connie Mark, who joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service in Jamaica (the women’s branch of the army) remembered ...

Connie Mark, who joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service in Jamaica (the women’s branch of the army) remembered the attacks: ‘If a boat was torpedoed (as ...

Although André Breton wasn’t the first to use the term ‘surrealism’, he made it his own with his first Manifesto in 1924.

So much in Long Island goes unsaid. It’s a world in which people speak knowledgeably (and sometimes bitchily) about others but reveal little of themselves. As well as secrets, there are problems of ...

Novelists don’t usually care for screen adaptations of their work. But the film versions of Atonement, The Remains of the Day and The English Patient do no great disservice to the books. And Colm ...

Iwas made in the small industrial town of Bouillon, in the Belgian Ardennes, where my mother came from and most of the family still lives. One aunt and uncle lived opposite, another lived forty ...

The D-Day planners said that everything would depend on the weather. They needed 'a quiet day with not more than moderate ...

If last night’s ITV debate between Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer was exceptional, it was only for its inanity. Two ...

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

The police have been regular visitors at Oxford’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment since we set it up outside the ...

Music critic Ian Penman is back with a pioneering book of essays alluding to a lost moment in musical history ‘when cultures collided and a cross-generational and “cross-colour” awareness was born’.

Disruption, when the Free Church of Scotland split from the Church of Scotland, some of its leaders ...