Tulathimutte’s characters have no choice but to elevate masturbation to an art because no one else is willing to touch them.

But the flood did severely disrupt the city’s transportation system: Fori Bridge and Lagos Bridge, which connected the east ...

But it’s the same ‘morbid symptom’, the way diaries are morbid symptoms. ‘When the symptoms could no longer be contained by her diary, she waded into a river with her pockets full of stones.’ A lot of ...

Julia is just one of Broderick’s melancholy outcasts – the product of an imagination that dwelled determinedly on the fringes. He wrote twelve novels, as well as reviewing regularly for the Irish ...

I believe there is a moral case for disarming the machinery of war that is killing innocent civilians in Gaza with ...

People often reach for machine-based metaphors when describing the way Jannik Sinner plays tennis. If his game ...

When tickets for Euro 2025 went on sale last year, UEFA made the usual noises about igniting passion, inspiring the ...

The Mill on the Floss is George Eliot’s most autobiographical novel, and the first she published after her identity as a woman was revealed. A ‘dreamscape’ version of her Warwickshire childhood, the ...

Chuck Berry’s ‘Maybellene’ recently turned seventy. Recorded on 21 May 1955 in a studio on the South Side ...

War amputees are a common sight in Odesa; I’ve had several rides from Bolt drivers with prosthetic limbs. The local athletes ...

An Anglo-American audience is a mixed blessing for an Irish artist. Pro: you get their money. Con: their opinions, ...

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