In the more fortunate and vastly different condition of life under civil government, the ideal of independence had become a ...

I had come along in the course of my duties as a hopeless necromantic. I don’t think I have ever believed that ...

Mathieu Kassovitz’s​ film La Haine is regarded as a classic in many circles. ‘Classic’ may not be quite ...

Colombia produced a record 2600 tons of cocaine in 2023 and at least a third of it passed through Ecuador – ...

Admirers of Morris the revolutionary have shared his uncertainties. George Bernard Shaw thought Morris’s late-life addiction to scribbling prose romances a lowering hobby – why not take up making ...

Director and screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz on adapting Deborah Levy’s Hot Milk for the big screen, in conversation with Gaby Wood, chief executive of the Booker Prize Foundation and a regular ...

My former colleague Nicholas Mostyn writes gloomily that ‘we will likely lose speech, mobility and continence and be beset by excruciating pain – but no doctor will ever give us a terminal diagnosis.’ ...

The Queen Mary University of London branch of the University and College Union, of which I am co-chair, hosts a ...

The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of ...

I asked Raji Sourani of the Palestine Centre for Human Rights if it was true that Gazans can hear the difference ...

On one level, Mansfield Park is a fairytale transposed to the 19th century: Fanny Price is the archetypal poor relation who, through her virtuousness, wins a wealthy husband. But Jane Austen’s 1814 ...

Ronald Reagan, as Jackson Lears wrote recently in the LRB, was a ‘telegenic demagogue’ whose ‘emotional appeal was built on white people’s racism’. His presidency left the United States a far more ...