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

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

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

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

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

Colombia produced a record 2600 tons of cocaine in 2023 and at least a third of it passed through Ecuador – ...

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 ...