Tombs Ltd, the New Zealand print shop where I served a small part of an apprenticeship that would have made me a compositor. ...

One of the only ways for foreign correspondents to get into Mali now is to rely on the services of human smugglers, as ...

The world has been Surrealist for a hundred years, though the adjective that people turn to in trying to describe ...

One of the only ways for foreign correspondents to get into Mali now is to rely on the services of human smugglers, as I did a few weeks ago. A former journalist turned fixer told me there were ‘no ...

Music critic Ian Penman is back with a pioneering book of essays alluding to a lost moment in musical history ‘when cultures collided and a cross-generational and “cross-colour” awareness was born’.

Alan Bennett reads from his short story, ‘The Uncommon Reader’, first published in the LRB in 2007, in which HM the Queen drifts accidentally into reading – and reading subversively at that – when her ...