It is almost the inverse of the Disney parks where you pay to have a prepared experience offered to you. At Ghibli ...

An ocean-going navy is not a workaday public service, like a coastguard or a constabulary. It is a grand project, ...

All the little aliens in the Duane Barry episode are children wearing huge grey heads. Between takes they ran around, playing ...

Only two daughters of the Tudor dynasty in its three-generation tenure of the English crown experienced the full force of ...

In no sense was Frank Auerbach a topographical artist. Primrose Hill, Mornington Crescent and the entrance to his ...

Keir Starmer described Badenoch’s election as a ‘proud moment for our country’. He presumably meant that ...

On the morning of the US presidential election, my twelve-year-old son told me that Trump was going to win: ‘All ...

Apuleius’ Metamorphoses, better known as The Golden Ass, is the only ancient Roman novel to have survived in its entirety. Following the story of Lucius, forced to suffer as a donkey until the goddess ...

The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of ...

If you’re looking for advice on sustaining a marriage, or robbing a grave, or performing liver surgery, then a series of self-help stories by a 14th-century Spanish prince is a good place to start.

James Meek talks to Tom about his latest report from Ukraine, where he spent time in Kharkiv and Kupiansk in the east of the country. In Kharkiv, he found a population living in fear not only of the ...