Jamelle Bouie is a columnist for The New York Times. Read anywhere with the London Review of Books app, available now from the App Store for Apple devices, Google Play for Android devices and Amazon ...

What kind of satirist was Jane Austen? Her earliest writings satirise romantic novelistic conventions, but her mature fiction goes far beyond this, taking the fashion for passionate sensibility and ...

In 1928, the V&A acquired a previously unknown portrait. It shows the Black Jamaican polymath Francis Williams (c. 1690-1762), dressed in a wig, surrounded by books and scientific instruments. In all ...

The polycrisis that is unfolding demands not a return to the status quo but urgent, progressive answers both at home ...

You might think that a novelist who works in more than one language would want language itself to become conceptual, ...

Given what it sets out to do, it’s hard to fault The Thursday Murder Club. The sentences flow smoothly, the jokes ...

I t had been ​ twenty years since my last research trip to the British Library when, in November last year, I received an ...

As peripatetic​ as he was, Fred Sparks, who was then a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News, didn’t cover the ...

The first hour of Anora, Sean Baker says, belongs to the genre of romantic comedy. This makes interesting sense if ...