Callas has not been represented well by others, on stage or screen. Terrence McNally’s trashy play Master Class ...

Ben Miller is a writer and historian living in Berlin. With Huw Lemmey, he hosts Bad Gays, a podcast about evil and complicated queers in history. Bad Gays: A Homosexual History was published by Verso ...

In last November’s election, a majority of California voters declined to outlaw forced labour among ...

At first glance, the row of booths could be mistaken for a chorus line dressing room. There are eight in all; each ...

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

Igrew up in the seaside town of Prestwick, on the West Coast of Scotland. In its heyday, Prestwick was a haven for workers from the shipyards and factories, who would travel ‘doon the watter’ by ...

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’.

It was all sweetness verging on smugness. On the evening of Monday, 6 January we sat in the hot tub in the backyard and looked at the unfull moon. There were really only two small questions ...