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Trying to psychoanalyse historical figures is rarely productive, but Cicero was a type we can all recognise. He had a. ..

China, which in the post-Cold War period was viewed as either lunch for American capital or an irredeemable dungeon, has. ..

To be a Garland fan is to have the illusion that you can save her from the wounds of the world, even as her voice and. ..

The letters page from London Review of Books Vol. 47 No. 23

In September​, a suitcase filled with sculptural odds and ends was discovered beneath a spiral staircase in Louise. ..

What must it have been like to live cheek by jowl with the man you’d cuckolded? In the early 19th century, for a woman. ..

The universe has no centre. What Pynchon has mapped is a world that is continuous and connected, where borders, however. ..

Reading the work​ that Susan Howe has produced over the past half century, one marvels at the consistency and depth of. ..

What has returned of late is not the unconscious itself, but the felt need, in some quarters, for the unconscious and. ..

For Rimsky-Korsakov, the key of A was clear pink; for Scriabin, it was green. Duke Ellington read the flight patterns of. ..

Pepys was a meticulous – some might say compulsive – record-keeper. Into his diary’s pages went social debts (who. ..

Above all, Jackson presents James as a ‘king of words’. No king before or since has written so thoughtfully about. ..

The life of the tenth Ottoman sultan, Suleyman, known in Europe as the Magnificent and in Turkey as the Lawgiver, has. ..

To read The Palestinians nearly half a century later is to recognise that the many defeats the Palestinian population. ..