Admirers of Morris the revolutionary have shared his uncertainties. George Bernard Shaw thought Morris’s late-life addiction ...

The Queen Mary University of London branch of the University and College Union, of which I am co-chair, hosts a ...

John XXIII, the pope who initiated the council in 1962, described it as an aggiornamento, a ‘bringing up to date’, an attempt ...

Mussorgsky’s alcoholism caught up with him before he could finish Khovanshchina. At the time of his death in 1881 ...

In the more fortunate and vastly different condition of life under civil government, the ideal of independence had become a ...

Going into the second round of Ecuador’s elections on 13 April, the polls had the centre-left candidate, Luisa González, neck-and-neck with the far-right president, Daniel Noboa. The night before, ...

My former colleague Nicholas Mostyn writes gloomily that ‘we will likely lose speech, mobility and continence and be beset by excruciating pain – but no doctor will ever give us a terminal diagnosis.’ ...

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