The Beaver the newspaper of the LSE Students' Union

Stephanie Chiang looks back at Frank Herbert’s classic space opera.

Rachel Holmes on th first book in Robin Hobb’s Rain Wild Chronicles trilogy, Dragon Keeper.

Rachel Holmes briefly outlines the life of the much-maligned Romatic.

Does Murakami’s breakthrough novel deserve the praise it has received. Rachel Holmes answers.

Rachel Holmes on a man whose arrival Dostoevsky declared to be “the beginning of our true selfconsciousness.”

Hari Ramakrishnan on a comic that is provides escapism more than introspection.

Rachel Holmes finds many ambiguities in the works of the Hungarian great.

Presca Ahn reads a deft and stylistically faithful translation of Flaubert’s masterpiece.

Luke Smolinski reviews the historian’s new book about Western hegemony, empire, and Mao’s pyjamas.

Highlights from LSE’s third annual event celebrating the meeting of the arts and the social sciences