When I Met the Pope
The invitation​ said ‘black dress for Ladies’. ‘You’re not allowed to be whiter than him,’ my husband, Jason...
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Where be your jibes now?
We knew he was not benevolent exactly (well, some of us knew) but there was the sense that he was suffering on the same...
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Katherine Rundell · Consider the Golden Mole · LRB 18 April 2019
T he word ​ iridescent comes from the Greek for ‘rainbow’, iris , and the Latin suffix, escent , ‘having a tendency towards’. Iridescence turns up in many…
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Tom Shippey · Did they even hang bears? What made the Vikings tick? · LRB 13 August 2020
The Vikings, for all their strange customs and unknowable psychology, were more like us than we might like to admit. But...
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The Communal Mind · LRB 21 February 2019
A few years ago, when it suddenly occurred to us that the internet was a place we could never leave, I began to keep a...
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LRB · Nick Richardson · Even what doesn’t happen is epic: Chinese SF
Science fiction isn’t new to China, as Cixin Liu explains in Invisible Planets, an introduction to Chinese sci-fi by some of its most prominent authors, but good science fiction is. The first Chinese sci-fi tales appeared at the turn of the 20th century, written by intellectuals fascinated . . .
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LRB · Marina Warner · Back from the Underworld: The Liveliness of the Dead
The work of the dead used to be intercession. It was a mutual striving; if we, who were still alive, prayed for them, they would do what they could for us. Chantries were established – and generously funded – to keep the work going on a daily basis, their members singing at the behest . . .
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You Are the Product
At the end of June, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook had hit a new level: two billion monthly active users. That number, the company’s preferred ‘metric’ when measuring its own size, means two billion different people used Facebook in the preceding month. It is hard to grasp . . .
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LRB · James Meek · Somerdale to Skarbimierz
How to explain Poland’s swing against the European Union? How to explain the election of the Catholic fundamentalist, authoritarian, populist, Eurosceptic Law and Justice Party to rule a booming country that has benefited from more than €130 billion in EU investment in its roads, . . .
