Anyone who plays an instrument – or has shared a house with a musician – will be familiar with the maddening nature of repetitive practice. Many piano players have bought Charles-Louis Hanon’s The ...

Much of what was great about Chris Jefferies was used to attack him and destroy his reputation when the media, ...

Stanford was among the first composers in Britain to write church music that was not automatically relegated to ...

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

The government’s support for Heathrow expansion is in keeping with the robotic incantations of economic growth ...

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 ...

Alan Bennett reads from his short story, ‘The Uncommon Reader’, first published in the LRB in 2007, in which HM the Queen drifts accidentally into reading – and reading subversively at that – when her ...

Last week, a trove of leaked documents offered a glimpse into the role that large technology companies have played ...