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The representation of Odysseus as a reluctant warlord makes a nonsense of The Odyssey’s imagined world. We are not. ..

If every accusation is a confession, then the US State Department report released on 20 July, which describes Cuba as. ..

Table of contents from London Review of Books Vol. 48 No. 13

In 1848, the US seized the northern half of Mexico, from California to New Mexico, and imposed American law and the. ..

Stained-glass​ windowpanes salvaged from Gorhambury, Francis Bacon’s 17th-century Hertfordshire residence, feature a cornucopia of flora and fauna, including tobacco plants, parrots and. ..

As a British wartime child living near secret things and sites, I can remember easily respecting the instruction: ‘. ..

Zurbarán has always seemed to me an engaging but second division painter. Seeing many of his paintings across all the. ..

If Joyce’s politics were hard to decipher, it was partly because he concealed his Parnellism behind something of the. ..

Afriendly ghost​ hovers over The Modern British City, the collaborative project of a crack team of historians of urban life. H. J. Dyos died in 1978, still in his fifties, but as the. ..

In M. John Harrison’s​ short story ‘The Crisis’, first published in 2017, the world has been invaded by aliens that look like ‘stalks of fleshy, weak rhubarb’. ...

Gibbon’s new and self-created version of the modernist sentence mixes Scots and English to resemble ‘a meandering, ...

Calvin’s​ Case is, as one of its judges, Sir Edward Coke, put it, ‘magnum in parvo … a matter of great consequence upon a slender subject’. The case concerned. ..

In accepting Catholic authority, writers unleashed their imaginations. As Graham Greene said, quoting Saki, ‘When once. ..

Bad magic attracts bad money. Brion Gysin had a preternatural instinct for the fluctuations of the art market, high-. ..