G has her own shameful self-doubts. When her daughter asks her why men are necessary, why the world can’t just be mothers and ...

‘The trick is to create a world,’ John Burnside ’s poem ‘Koi’ begins, ‘from nothing.’ Published in the LRB in 2001, it was one of nearly a hundred poems by Burnside that appeared in the paper between ...

The Scottish independence movement may not have been as transformative as its supporters hoped, but it was, for a ...

Labour’s manifesto at least looks like a real programme, though it is in places evasive, unclear or ...

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

The leader of Estonia’s Centre Party, Mihhail Kõlvart, lost his job as mayor of Tallinn in April after a vote of no confidence. The party, whose electoral base of Russian speakers is concentrated in ...

from kitchens fogged with steam and buttered toast, broth on the hot plate, ham hough and yellow lentils.

‘Imagine a roll of barbed wire, but this big.’ Billy Albertina spreads his arms out, gesturing to a brick building near the ...

On Monday, 20 May, the LRB in partnership with MUBI screened Miguel Gomes’s film ‘The Restless One’ at the Garden Cinema as ...

In last week’s elections, the European parliament withstood an energetic onslaught by the far right. The centre-right European People’s Party remains the largest group and resembles a large, inert ...