My boss at the bookshop has said he would sell AI novels if there were clear demand and clear labelling. We ...

At the first interval in the Berlin Staatsoper’s new production of La Vestale, the man to my right turned to me ...

John Clare’s tombstone in Helpston declares that ‘A poet is born not made,’ echoing sentiments expressed during his lifetime. In 1822 the Eclectic Review noted that ‘such a poet as John Clare, ...

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‘An Invite to Eternity’ begins with ‘dark obscurity’, ‘sad non-identity’ and hellish visionary scenes (‘Where stones will ...

Several schoolchildren have been severely injured by police violence. A 16-year-old in Argenteuil may have lost the use of ...

Anne Carson has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. She first appeared in the London Review on the letters page ...

Earlier at her party Simon Shaw had seemed a little excited when I met up with him. Was that sexual interest? – but what did ...

Lula raised the budget for school lunches, improved access to higher education and free medication, and increased ...

Fredric Jameson seemed to me to have read absolutely everything. He was the very antithesis of the intellectual type ...

Andy Burnham will soon become the UK’s seventh prime minister since 2010 and will face many of the same problems that defeated his predecessors, not least the UK’s stubbornly weak economy. To dissect ...

The title, Switzy, is a flippant nickname for Switzerland, a place like old age: snow-topped, dim and cold. Emma ...