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Alphabet, Google’s parent company, has asked the US government for permission to r...

On Point news analyst Jack Beatty on the Trump administration’s war on the concept of climate change...

Studies from commuter patterns after the 2014 London Underground Strike illustrate an impor...

The poems that nourish us, and the myths that nourish poems. What can a connection with a mythical f...

The Booker Prize-winning Scottish author, Douglas Stuart, speaks to Take Four Books about his latest...

The penultimate great political fiction in this series is not strictly a fiction: it’s Anni...

Next week, Harry Kane will lead the England men’s squad into their first game of the 2026 World Cup....

-Read this essay on Substack! -What is meter?-10 Reasons to write in meter-Kinds of meter (Accentual...

300 years after the publication of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, Matthew Sweet looks at satir...

We’re unearthing a model writer for an anxious America. Dwight Macdonald was his own eccentri...

Elite sport is traditionally a celebration of the human, but for how much longer? ...

This is a catch-up version of James O'Brien's Mystery Hour. To join the game, call 0345 60 60 973, T...

What's in a face? The face is where all our senses come together, but we also perc...

Before the Bosnian war, Biljana Plavšić  was a renowned biologist and university d...

In 1897, Paul Shishkoff was 10 years old and living with his family in rural Russia.It was there he ...

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In the summer of 1937, some of the 20th Century's most famous artists, writers and photographers wer...

Today’s political fiction is a spy novel, a Cold War comedy and a meditation on the nature ...

Anouchka Grose, a psychotherapist specialising in climate anxiety, became disillusioned wit...

Philip Norman has written books about the Beatles – and John, Paul and George - and now turns the sp...

A crisis involving the design of the 59-story Citicorp Center illustrates lessons in creati...

In the 1960s, John Charles McQuaid faced a number of serious challenges that saw his influence over ...

Andrea Bajani reads his story “Constellation,” which was translated, from the Italian, by G...

Maggie O'Farrell was born in Northern Ireland in 1972. Keen to move away from The Troubles, her fath...

Maggie O’Farrell wrote the novel ‘Hamnet’ and co-wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation. She h...

We read part of The Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944), specifically the parts about Homer's epic as ...

Anne McElvoy and guests discuss the concentration, distribution and morality of wealth now and look ...

We are the kind of creature that cares whether or not we matter and how. What follows from this? Reb...

On 10 March 1994, Italian author Andrea Camilleri's The Shape of Water was published.It features Ins...

Leading up to the 250th anniversary of American independence, Rosebud is giving you a series of inte...

In the second of two programs created with the podcast Death, Sex, and Money and our live event host...

This is a catch-up version of James O'Brien's Mystery Hour. To join the game, call 0345 60 60 973, T...

Misha Glenny and guests discuss one of the great writers on Central Europe after the first world war...

What a lot of fun I had talking to Zena Hitz about Gulliver’s Travels. As well as discussing Swift, ...

Beloved by Toni Morrison was first published in 1987 by Knopf, it went on to win the Pulitz...

Over the past month, there have been two dominant stories in American foreign policy. One, of course...

In 1996, Ireland launched its first television channel broadcasting exclusively in the Irish languag...

"Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety." She's the most famous character in a...

Following the phenomenal success of Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell returns with Land, an epic novel of...

Charlotte Metcalf talks to the multiple-award winning writer Margaret Drabble about her books, her u...

On Point news analyst Jack Beatty on the perils and promise of AI as outlined in the papal encyclica...

Jamil Jan Kochai reads his story “The Twice-Widowed Khala Helai,” from the June 8, 2026, is...

Han Ong joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “The Fugitive,” by Lyudmila Ulitskaya, which was ...

My daughter’s tattoo taught me an important lesson in parenthood: nothing can become betwee...

The powerful and fearsome John Charles McQuaid was the archbishop of Dublin from 1940 to the early 1...

In this special edition of The Verb, coming from the Hay Festival, Ian McMillan's guests are:Nicola ...

Taiye Selasi reads her story “Firstborn Immigrant Daughter,” from the July 8, 2026, issue o...

In an episode of the LRB podcast Aftershock recorded live at the London Review Bookshop, Da...

Ben Lerner’s slender new novel, “Transcription,” is just 130 pages long, yet it cracks open some of ...

Daniel Lanois built a studio in his basement in Quebec and began producing local acts when a teenage...