1+ week, 1+ day ago  (752+ words) Nancy Fraser | After Habermas'London Review of Books J'rgen Habermas may be variously described as the moral conscience of postwar Germany, the last great systematic philosopher, the dominant figure in the second generation of the Frankfurt School and the thinker who…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (943+ words) Susannah Clapp " On Soaps'London Review of Books Not exactly" an addiction but a compulsion. When I started to write full-time about the theatre, I was fixated on television soaps. Not all of them. I didn't have an afternoon habit. Just…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (1546+ words) Katie Ebner-Landy " Gender Wonder: Early Modern Women's Writing'London Review of Books Dare you but write, you are Minerva's bird, If" you think you know what the 17th-century poet Anne Southwell means by referring to Minerva's owl, you are probably wrong....

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (92+ words) In the latest issue: On" 3 November 1876, two days after the unexpected death of his younger brother Ren, Gustave Caillebotte made his will. He was 28. "The Pont de l'Europe' (1876) "Paris Street; Rainy Day' (1877) "Man at His Bath' (1884) Or perhaps it is…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (1721+ words) Vadim Nikitin " Among the Private Spies: Christopher Steele's Assertions'London Review of Books Among the Private Spies "The name's Steele, Christopher Steele.' That's the way a former MI6 operative who wrote the notorious dossier alleging collusion between Trump and Putin introduced himself…...

1+ week, 20+ hour ago  (393+ words) In June" 1934, Richmal Crompton published "William and the Nasties" in the Happy Magazine, an interwar journal that provided readers with a cheerful stream of popular fiction. In this story, William Brown, 11-year-old leader of the Outlaws, decides to become a…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (1788+ words) Leo Robson " Toxic Inner Critic: On Nicola Barker'London Review of Books Whatever the underlying causes, Barker appears to have experienced a kind of creative paralysis similar to what athletes call the yips " a neurological condition that also gave its name…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (923+ words) Les Rendez-vous d'Anna' (1978). Childhood and love are two of cinema's big subjects. And children love trains because of the rocking motion which reminds them of their mothers. The sensual aspect of a train resembles the cinema, or when you're close…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (1643+ words) Michael Hofmann " At the Norton: Rembrandt in Palm Beach'London Review of Books Rembrandt in Palm Beach Zbigniew Herbert" , noted lover of Golden Age Dutch painting, decided one day to break with his well-trodden pilgrimages to his favourite museums in Rotterdam…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (1785+ words) Susan Pedersen " Diary: Men explain Epstein to me'London Review of Books Men explain Epstein to me I'm" not on social media, in part because the level of my rage and anxiety about American politics doesn't need to get any higher....