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 ...

In the second of three conversations about the crisis in the Middle East, recorded shortly before the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was reported, Yezid Sayigh talks to Adam Shatz about why he ...

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

Children’s fiction has its own peculiar power: like a swordstick in an umbrella, it can flash sharp at unexpected moments. Taken seriously, it can work not just to educate but to transform and ...

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

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’.

Daniela Z wanted to be a doctor like her father. He died in 2023, soon after her brother and mother, as a consequence ...