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

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

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

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

Schoenberg looked backward and forward. In his commitment to perpetuating the Austro-German canon, he drew on the compositional techniques of his predecessors: the counterpoint of Bach, the classical ...

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

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’ ...

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

No one can still seriously claim, as many did until recently, that the AfD is a predominantly eastern problem; yet its breakthrough was always going to arrive there, where the economic, demographic ...

In July 2021 my Uncle Bilal was dying of lymphoma. In the days before his death, our family gathered at his hospital ...