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In the later decades of the last century, a new wave of ideas broke across the study of literature throughout the world. Known simply as ‘theory’, it ranged from structuralism to feminism, semiotics ...

Immanuel Kant was against revolutions. In 1793 he described them as the work of ‘political criminals’ and ‘injustice in the highest degree’. He accepted, on the other hand, that they sometimes turned ...

Leaves ticket down, no avalanche, A gangrene inches through the bark. Fruit trees are short-lived. So we’d heard.

Music critic Ian Penman is back with a pioneering book of essays alluding to a lost moment in musical history ‘when cultures collided and a cross-generational and “cross-colour” awareness was born’.

Unusually for a politician, Tony Blair is an authentic writer, in that he authentically sounds like himself. His post-prime-ministerial memoir, A Journey, published in 2010, was long, discursive, ...

In the early 11th century, at Nandana, a fort in the mountains of northern Punjab, the polymath Abu Rayhan al-Biruni realised his dream of measuring the size of the earth. Two centuries earlier, the ...

Around 150,000 Dutch Jews were living in the Netherlands when Germany invaded on 10 May 1940. Over the next five years, 107,000 were rounded up and sent to concentration camps. After the war, only ...

Igrew up in the seaside town of Prestwick, on the West Coast of Scotland. In its heyday, Prestwick was a haven for workers from the shipyards and factories, who would travel ‘doon the watter’ by ...

You can tell a lot about the state of the contemporary university by looking at something peripheral: the parking. You might think there is only so much that can be said about parking. You would be ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. ‘The department store is dying,’ Rosemary Hill wrote recently in the LRB, reviewing an exhibition at the Musée ...