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Close Readings: Nietzsche's 'Schopenhauer as Educator'
Old Pope, New Pope
In the Soviet Archives: a conversation with Sheila Fitzpatrick
How They Built the Pyramids
Cold War Pen-Pals
Close Readings: 'Vanity Fair' by William Makepeace Thackeray
Conceiving Pregnancy
Trump’s War by Executive Order
On Mavis Gallant
Close Readings: ‘Wuthering Heights’ by Emily Brontë
The Grimms’ Weird Tales
Weaponising Antisemitism
Who is Paul Marshall?
Close Readings: 'Crotchet Castle' by Thomas Love Peacock
Deaths in Custody
Have we surrendered to climate breakdown?
On Vigdis Hjorth
Close Readings: ‘Mansfield Park’ by Jane Austen
Ronald Reagan’s Make-Believe
After Assad
Abbamania
A Conversation with Neal Ascherson
Close Readings: Marcus Aurelius
Saving Masud Khan
Gaza, Before and After
On Lisa Marie Presley
Labour's Economic Conundrum
Endgame in Ukraine
The Trump Takeover
The Mendel Inheritance
Early Modern Maths
On Binyavanga Wainaina
A New War in Lebanon
The End of Hamas?
Inside Israel
The Death and Life of the Department Store
After Grenfell
Euripides Unbound
Streisand’s Way
‘The Cleverest Woman in England’
On Edith Piaf
Jean-Paul Sartre: 'Being and Nothingness'
Great Auks!
Jane Austen, Simone de Beauvoir and Herodotus
How to Read Genesis
The First Pandemic?
On Wittgenstein’s ‘Tractatus’
Patrick McGuinness: Back to Bouillon
At the Republican National Convention: Day Four
At the Republican National Convention: Day Three
At the Republican National Convention: Day Two
At the Republican National Convention: Day One
Mendez: How I became an audiobook narrator
Labour's Big Win
UK Election Special: The Economy
UK Election Special: Foreign Policy
Faked Editions
UK Election Special: The Broken State
UK Election Special: Climate
What was the Venetian ghetto?
Forecasting D-Day
On J.G. Ballard
On Festac ’77
Rebecca Solnit: In the Shadow of Silicon Valley
Women in Philosophy
Unspeakable Acts
Where does culture come from?
Remembering the Future
Leaving Haiti
Gurle Talk
The Belgrano Diary: Half a Million Sheep Can't Be Wrong
Architecture Repopulated
Introducing: The Belgrano Diary
The Shoah After Gaza
The Acid House Revolution
On Giving Up
On the Jewish Novel
Dr Comfort, Mr Sex
The World's First Author
Protest, what is it good for?
Political Poems: Andrew Marvell's 'An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland'
War in Tigray
Medieval LOLs: Chaucer's 'Miller's Tale'
Proust in English
New TV/Old TV
Was Jane Austen Gay? And other questions from the LRB archive
Byron before Byron
Manutius, the Biblophile's Bibliophile
Camus in the Americas
Patricia Lockwood on Meeting the Pope
What was Orwell for?
Next Year on Close Readings: Among the Ancients II
Next Year on Close Readings: Human Conditions
Next Year on Close Readings: On Satire
The Infected Blood Scandal
The Giant Crypto Fraud
What is British humour anyway?
Colour Revolution at the Ashmolean (sponsored)
Who wrote the dictionary?
War in Gaza