Thus, at the moment when the revolution began, the three young women were already outside the conventions of bourgeois society and at best insecurely connected to the lower ranks of the aristocracy.

On Sunday, 9 March, at Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, the City of London Sinfonia and the London Review ...

On the horizon is a legally unfettered behemoth capable of coercing organisations, negating rights, suppressing ...

Gcina Lepheana had been working deep in the illegal mine for five months when, in October last year, deliveries ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. Agatha Christie, writes John Lanchester, ‘is the only writer by whom I’ve read more than fifty books. So – why ...

James Meek talks to Tom about the events leading up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, from the fall of Yanukovych to the wars in the Donbas and Nagorno-Karabakh, and considers what may happen next.

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Masud Khan was a protégé of D.W. Winnicott and the darling of British psychoanalysis. He was also much else besides. In this unforgettable piece from 2001, Wynne Godley describes his baffling and ...

James Wood and Jonathan Rée introduce their new Close Readings series, Conversations in Philosophy, running throughout 2025. They explain the title of the series and why they'll be challenging a ...