The point about the microphone as a visual aid is a minor one. Behind it lies a more fundamental question. What does ...

Pasta was one of many things Mussolini disapproved of, believing it made Italians sluggish and exhorting them to eat rice ...

Polis: A New History of the Ancient Greek City-State from the Early Iron Age to the End of Antiquity by John Ma. Radical change was a function of rivalry between city-states. Athens and Thebes, close ...

Whistler has not had a major retrospective in Europe in the last thirty years. The Tate show should have been an excellent opportunity for a reappraisal. It claims to bring together his ‘world-famous ...

For the second time​ in five years, Britain is experiencing an energy crisis. The political debate has coalesced around two proposed solutions. The first, advocated by the ‘Drill, baby, drill’ ...

Schoenberg himself looked backward and forward. In his commitment to perpetuating the Austro-German canon, he drew on the ...

In June 1944, 25-year-old Ruth Adler was one of sixty Jewish women and children interned in the Vittel camp in eastern France ...

While the historical West may have been constituted by Latin Europe and Britain, along with their colonial offshoots, many ...

Almost everything is imitation,’ Voltaire wrote in one of the French editions of Lettres philosophiques. Books ...

Erroll Garner at the New York Jazz Festival in 1956. © Lisette Model Foundation, courtesy National Gallery of Canada/Eakins ...

My father, Peter Campbell, took these photographs of Anita Brookner for the LRB in 1982. The pictures must have ...

Academic life is full of churn. The world changes; younger scholars are seized by new questions and, as they hare ...