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Angel Hill review – ‘It may be simple, but it isn’t empty’

Michael Longley’s Forward Prize short-listed collection is elegant and timeless, writes Barney Pite

An improbable journey to the East

Sam Dalrymple reflects on mundanity and self-discovery in Bouvier’s The Way of the World

Reconsidering the Lobster: Wallace’s Dostoyevsky

David Foster Wallace cuts to the core of what makes Dostoyevsky invaluable, writes Barney Pite.

Project 1917: The revolution will be tweeted

The historical Project 1917 is bringing new life to the Russian Revolution, writes Lucy Enderby

Assassination attempts amid the violence that tore Kingston apart

The first book written by a Jamaican to win the Man Booker Prize is an epic in the truest sense of the word, writes Jacob Cheli

Meet Woolf’s doll house inspiration

A miniaturised book which inspired Woolf's Orlando is to be published

In this fractured world, does empathy really hold us all together?

Against Empathy is a compelling and relevant reevaluation of compassion

How a small office in Bloomsbury keeps the tradition of criticism alive

The LRB’s Alice Spawls talks to Altair Brandon-Salmon about her journey from intern to editor at the world’s most prestigious literary journal

Adaptating our perception of film adaptations

Jack Allsopp questions whether film adaptations can ever match or even supersede their literary predecessor

The science books that every non-scientist should read

Rosalie Wells lists the best science and medicine books to read this summer

Girl meets girl: re-writing cultural scripts

Priya Khaira-Hanks advocates forming your own unique queer identity outside of the boundaries of heteronormative culture

Disney princesses and ‘Lolita’: the danger of men writing women

Carolina Earle explores how masculine fantasies have shaped and corrupted our childhood obsessions

Through the Looking Glass: The ‘modesty’ of Alan Bennett’s Oxford

Susie Finlay explores the relationship between Alan Bennett's political views and his time at Oxford

The richness of the materiality of books

Altair Brandon-Salmon discusses the importance of books as aesthetic objects

A defence of students’ reliance on AI (and how...

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Brasenose hosts talk by suspended spokesman for the Israeli...

Review: Endgame – ‘Nothing is funnier than unhappiness’

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