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

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An honest account of energy history would conclude not that energy transitions were a regular feature of the past, ...

No one who has lived in Britain would contest that Oxfam (and Save the Children, War on Want, Live Aid and the other ...

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Children’s fiction has its own peculiar power: like a swordstick in an umbrella, it can flash sharp at unexpected moments. Taken seriously, it can work not just to educate but to transform and ...

When diva worship turns an artist into an icon, everyone ...

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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 ...