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

The annual World Conker Championships take place every October in the grounds of the Shuckburgh Arms, a pub in ...

Amia Srinivasan is the Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College, Oxford and a contributing ...

The few optimists in Labour claim that polling numbers aren’t meaningful this far from an election: faced with ...

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

Narges Mohammadi, who was jailed in November 2021 and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023, was punched in the chest by ...

I enrolled at the Islamic University of Gaza in 2022. As I started my second year, I hoped I would do well enough to ...

I n September ​ , a suitcase filled with sculptural odds and ends was discovered beneath a spiral staircase in Louise ...

Suleyman came to the throne in 1520, when he was 26. That may sound young, but he was in good company: Francis I, king of ...

The 400th anniversary of James VI and I’s death has been marked by several new approaches to the reign that gave ...

Pepys himself was remembered, if at all, as a naval administrator who’d had a compulsion for buying up printed paper. The ...

But young Palestinians have never forgotten the anger of earlier generations over the giveaway of lands they stood to govern ...