Being pretty is a major disaster for women,’ Diana Melly once told a friend, and beauty certainly had a hand in ...
The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of ...
That is pure fiction.’ Los Angeles takes most of its water not from the delta but from the Owens Valley (Payahuunadü, the ...
Stanford was among the first composers in Britain to write church music that was not automatically relegated to ...
Robert Schumann’s teenage ambitions of virtuosity were undone by the onset of debilitating pain in his right hand.
Donald Trump recently deported a planeload of 88 Brazilians, who arrived with cuts and bruises after being ...
When Iman shows his wife, Najmeh, his new gun, it comes with the news that he’s been promoted to the post of investigating prosecutor in Iran’s judiciary. He needs the gun for security, he says. Yet ...
The Norwegian novelist Vigdis Hjorth is a master of the collapsing relationship. In her twenty books, five of which have been translated into English, she turns her eye to estranged siblings, ...
The writers were Jon Fosse and Vigdis Hjorth, and their respective media profiles were now set. His books were serious, hers ...
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