For early modern writers, conception was an occasion to describe the otherwise indescribable: a woman’s orgasm, supposedly ...

A faint irony in the presentation of this thought tells us that Paudi may be a bit too correct and modern, and Buzzati later ...

The ingredients of compost are dead things or, as the YouTube gardener Bruce Darrell put it, ‘anything that was recently ...

The Tories, in office, prepared a trap for Labour. It had a large sign on it saying ‘It’s a Trap’ and then next ...

His spaniel was up on its hind legs, paws on his master’s belly, where my paws happily had lately been. He was my host, and I ...

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

On 1 April, the memorial site at the former Buchenwald concentration camp announced that the Israeli philosopher ...

Barbara Everett, who died on Friday, 4 April at the age of 92, was for many years a fellow of Somerville College, ...

Last Thursday evening, more than twenty Metropolitan police officers – some armed with tasers – broke down the doors of the Quaker meeting house in Westminster to arrest six young women. The women ...